moving variable into cart

Hi,
On my site I have price and saleprice, and sizes and backorder message. I have been able to have the item sale price show in the cart if it is on sale and the size show in the cart if it has a size. I have used the same principle for the back order message, if an item is back ordered, the message comes up on the detail page with the size that is backordered. In my columns bindings I have BO for backorder, and it is text that is unique. On the detail page I have the code:
<?php if ($row_rsSize['backordermsg'] != "0") { // Show if recordset not empty
?>
<?php
do {
?>
<p><?php echo $row_rsSize['backordermsg']?>
<?php } while ($row_rsSize = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsSize));
$rows = mysql_num_rows($rsSize);
if($rows > 0) {
mysql_data_seek($rsSize, 0);
$row_rsSize = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsSize);
}
?> <?php } else {?>
<?php }?>
This will show the backorder msg if onbackorder =1, that works. Now I want the message to show in the cart under the size. On the detail page in the ATC section I have
$ATC_itemBO = "".$row_rsInventoryid['backordermsg'] ."";// column binding
I used rsInventoryid, since that is what I used for the size to show in the cart. Even if I change the rs to rsSize it does not show
In the cart I have:
<?php echo $winkee->DisplayInfo("BO"); ?>
It seems no different than the way that I did the size and price vs saleprice and yet it does not show. How am I not passing the info to the cart in this case?
Tables in db used: products- has basic info ie description, category etc. inventory-has detail info ie: size, quantity, backorder, sku, barcode, prodid, catid, and some of the same info as the products table. All products are listed in the inventory table.
Well I did get something to show by changing on detail page the ATC_itemBO to$ATC_itemBO = "".$row_rsInventory['backordermsg'] ."";// column binding
But it does not discriminate by size...if I order a size that is on backorder and it shows the bo message, if I order the same prod in another size that is bo, it shows me the bo message for the size I already ordered. I can see now that the problem is that when items that have different sizes are added to the cart, in the cart they are given the same item number, even though they have different item numbers. Not sure how to handle this, so that as an item with different sizes gets their own item number posted to the cart.

When I change the binding for the item number and backorder message, they only show when I use the record set for the size to post to the cart. The items that have no size do not show the item number or the back order message. It is probably because I have the size recordset which is rsInventoryid set to the form variable. Any suggestions?
Thank you

can you send a copy of your page sop I can examine how the record sets are created.

Thank you Jason. Here are my files....I need to pass the item number to the cart as well as the bo message. My detail page is based on the prodid. Most of the products have sizes, some do not. So I do have an inventory table for all products regardless of size. Every item has an inventoryid and prodid. The items with size have the same prodid, but different inventoryid's. The products table and inventory table share some of the same info, but not all of it. The item number is in the inventory table as well as the bo message, since each item has its own number. So it is a matter of knowing how to get the item number and bo message into the cart in their respective places, so when the cust checks out to paypal the item number shows and tables are updated. Now I am using for ATC item_num and BO the rs that is being used for sizes, since it works for items with sizes, but does not show info in the cart for items that do not have sizes.

Please need help with this, especially passing the item number to the cart, since this goes to ppal and is used by the merchant for tracking.
Thank you,
k

I need to know a little more about your table structure.

Can you send a screen shoot showing the structure of the Products and inventory tables.

it would also help to see a Product record and the related inventory record so I can get a better understanding of the relationship between the two.

Thank you,
Here are my images.

these screen shots are too small to be able to read the column names.

Hope this is better.
Thank you,
K

hmmm, looking at the code, I cannot see why it is not working unless there is no backorder message in the column for the selected inventoryID


to test this, look for the following line of code:

// WA eCart AddToCart

if (isset($_POST["winkee_1_ATC"]) || isset($_POST["winkee_1_ATC_x"]))     {

and change it to:

// WA eCart AddToCart

if (isset($_POST["winkee_1_ATC"]) || isset($_POST["winkee_1_ATC_x"]))     {

die($query_rsInventoryid);

this will write the sql for the rsInventoryid recordset to the screen.

COPY the sql statement and run it directly in PHPMyAdmin post back a screen shot showing the results.

Thank you, Jason.
The file contains 3 images:
sql_tab: this is what I get when I run the message and the product has a tab (size)
sql_notab: this is what I get when I run the message and the product has no tab (size)
rsInventoryid: a picture of the rs that I am using for passing the item number and the bo message. It is based on the the tab.
thank you,
K