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How to count number of unique item options in cart?

Thread began 6/03/2010 5:50 am by iain.sutherland290832 | Last modified 6/04/2010 3:44 pm by Eric Mittman | 1453 views | 3 replies |

iain.sutherland290832

How to count number of unique item options in cart?

Shopping cart is working as required but I need a tweak.

I have a user modifiable text box for selecting an option in ecart. I need to be able to count these items to determine the charges to be applied, I can count the total number but but not the number of unique option values. tried code below but it only gives the count of all options, not the count of unique entries. Any suggestions as I have tried a range of ideas but could do with some inspiration?

'rider' is the unique text field. 'ur2' was an attempt to filter out duplicate rider entries with 'riders' being the final count of unique enties but the filtereing is not working and it counts duplicates as new items.

$itmObj->uniquerider = array($itmObj->rider);//t
$itmObj->ur2 = array_unique($itmObj->uniquerider);//t
$itmObj->riders = count($itmObj->ur2);//n
return $itmObj;
}

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Eric Mittman

This is a little custom so I will not be able to work it out entirely for you but I think you could create an array, then loop over the items in the cart, when you are looping you can check the current option to see if it unique by seeing if it is not in your newly created array. If it is not in the array then you add it to the array. In the end you should have an array that has only unique values. You can then do a count on this array. Here is a code example of what I'm talking about:

php:
$unique_riders = array();

for($e = 0; $e < sizeof($your_cart->items); $e++){
    if(!(in_array($your_cart->items[$e]->rider, $unique_riders))){
        $unique_riders[$e] = $your_cart->items[$e]->rider;
    }
}
$riders = count($unique_riders);



This is just a pseudo code example based on your post, it might have errors and need some tweaking to be able to use but I think this is the rite approach for this.

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iain.sutherland290832

thanks - sent me in the right direction and now sorted

After a bit of minor tweaking it worked. This was the final working code:

$uniqueriders = array();
for($e = 0; $e < sizeof($this->Items); $e++){
if(!(in_array($this->Items[$e]->rider, $uniqueriders))){
$uniqueriders[$e] = $this->Items[$e]->rider;
}
}
$riders = count($uniqueriders);

I noticed if I run the ecart interface it dissapears, but that is no hardship. Many thanks for your assistance on this custom code.

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Eric Mittman

Based on your updates of the cart object to this it looks like you are doing this inside of the eCart files. If you use the full cart name reference I think this same code would work on any page in your site so long as there were the include files for the cart. If you had it just on a page then you could edit the cart and have it not overwrite the code. I'm glad it worked out for you though.

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