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How do I destroy a specific session variable in PHP?

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session

I'm currently working on a shopping cart system. It requires a user login to access the cart. So I've wrote some codes to disable access of the cart page if the user is not logged in. However, whenever I try to empty the cart, I get logged out. I just want to destroy the cart session and not the user session. Here's my code:

For the cart page:

<?php
  session_start();
  if(isset($_SESSION['userID'])){

  }
  elseif(!isset($_SESSION['userID'])){
      echo 
      "<script>
        alert('You must be logged in.');
        window.location.href='index.php#login'
      </script>";
    }
?>

  <?php
    include ('../import/layout.php');
  ?>

  <body>

    <div class="site-wrapper" id="index">

      <div class="site-wrapper-inner">

        <div class="cover-container">

          <?php
            include ('../import/nav-two.php');
          ?>

          <!-- <div class="inner cover">

          </div>

          <div class="mastfoot">
            <div class="inner">
              <p>&copy; 2015 Aroma Chicken House Restaurant, All Rights Reserved.
                 <a class="menu-item pull-right" href="#index">Back to Top</a>
              </p>
            </div>
          </div> -->

        </div>

        <div id="cart">
          <div class="container">
            <?php
              include ('../cart/index.php');
            ?>
          </div>
        </div>


      </div>

    </div>


  </body>

For the cart update:

<?php
session_start();
include_once("config/config.php");

//empty cart by distroying current session
if(isset($_GET["emptycart"]) && $_GET["emptycart"]==1)
{
    $return_url = base64_decode($_GET["return_url"]); //return url
    session_destroy();
    header('Location:'.$return_url);
}

//add item in shopping cart
if(isset($_POST["type"]) && $_POST["type"]=='add')
{
    $product_code   = filter_var($_POST["product_code"], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); //product code
    $product_qty    = filter_var($_POST["product_qty"], FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); //product code
    $return_url     = base64_decode($_POST["return_url"]); //return url

    //MySqli query - get details of item from db using product code
    $results = $mysqli->query("SELECT product_name,price FROM products WHERE product_code='$product_code' LIMIT 1");
    $obj = $results->fetch_object();

    if ($results) { //we have the product info 

        //prepare array for the session variable
        $new_product = array(array('name'=>$obj->product_name, 'code'=>$product_code, 'qty'=>$product_qty, 'price'=>$obj->price));

        if(isset($_SESSION["products"])) //if we have the session
        {
            $found = false; //set found item to false

            foreach ($_SESSION["products"] as $cart_itm) //loop through session array
            {
                if($cart_itm["code"] == $product_code){ //the item exist in array

                    $product[] = array('name'=>$cart_itm["name"], 'code'=>$cart_itm["code"], 'qty'=>$product_qty, 'price'=>$cart_itm["price"]);
                    $found = true;
                }else{
                    //item doesn't exist in the list, just retrive old info and prepare array for session var
                    $product[] = array('name'=>$cart_itm["name"], 'code'=>$cart_itm["code"], 'qty'=>$cart_itm["qty"], 'price'=>$cart_itm["price"]);
                }
            }

            if($found == false) //we didn't find item in array
            {
                //add new user item in array
                $_SESSION["products"] = array_merge($product, $new_product);
            }else{
                //found user item in array list, and increased the quantity
                $_SESSION["products"] = $product;
            }

        }else{
            //create a new session var if does not exist
            $_SESSION["products"] = $new_product;
        }

    }

    //redirect back to original page
    header('Location:'.$return_url);
}

//remove item from shopping cart
if(isset($_GET["removep"]) && isset($_GET["return_url"]) && isset($_SESSION["products"]))
{
    $product_code   = $_GET["removep"]; //get the product code to remove
    $return_url     = base64_decode($_GET["return_url"]); //get return url


    foreach ($_SESSION["products"] as $cart_itm) //loop through session array var
    {
        if($cart_itm["code"]!=$product_code){ //item does,t exist in the list
            $product[] = array('name'=>$cart_itm["name"], 'code'=>$cart_itm["code"], 'qty'=>$cart_itm["qty"], 'price'=>$cart_itm["price"]);
        }

        //create a new product list for cart
        $_SESSION["products"] = $product;
    }

    //redirect back to original page
    header('Location:'.$return_url);
}
?>
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Benedict Payot Avatar asked Feb 19 '15 09:02

Benedict Payot


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1 Answers

What about

unset($_SESSION["products"])

instead of the

session_destroy()

There is only one session per user. So there is no way to destroy a "specific" session. What you can do is delete the contents of your session responsible for the display of the cart (as shown above).

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Markus Müller Avatar answered Oct 15 '22 03:10

Markus Müller