Actually, I am creating a shopping cart. I need to store the product_id and the quantity in the session, so that I can retrieve these into the Cart page.
Currently, I am adding values to the session variable using the push method-
$request->session()->push('order.products', $request->product_id);
It stores data in this structure-
array (size=1)
'products' =>
array (size=2)
0 => string '11' (length=2)
1 => string '9' (length=1)
But, in this way I am not able to store the quantity. I think storing associative array into the session can solve my problem.
So, how can I do that??
Please try it.
// store data in session.
$request->session()->push('productsid', ['order.products'=>$request->product_id]);
// then get session data here.
$array = Session::get('productsid');
The Laravel didnt provided this feature but you can achieve what you want within a function:
/**
* this method will append new values to session stored array,
*
* This method functionality has advantage over Laravel's session()->push is:
* it can accept an associate array as well as normal array
*
* @param string $session_key the session key which associated with The 'Array'
* @param array $appendingArray The array which will be append to existing session-stored array
* @return void
*/
private static function session_append($session_key, $appendingArray)
{
session()->put($session_key, array_merge(
session()->get($session_key),
$appendingArray
));
}
and as long as it depends on session() helper, it can be a global helper as well.