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POCode igniter Cart Class, won't hold cart items in the session
 

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    <p>I am following the ‘build a shopping cart’ tutorial with CI by nettuts. I haven’t even gotten into the first 5 minutes and I’ve got a problem.</p> <p>It appears my sessions system isn’t working and passing the data across. I did some reading and I see CI does not use normal php sessions but stores them in the database using the session ID as the identifier.</p> <p>So I checked, all my database settings are right, and I set up the sessions table and fields as per some stack answers I found. I can see CI writing and storing data into the session table, but the cart doesn't hold items across the pages.</p> <p>I am auto loading</p> <pre><code> $autoload['libraries'] = array('database', 'cart'); $autoload['helper'] = array('form', 'html', 'url'); </code></pre> <p>I set this</p> <pre><code> $config['encryption_key'] = ''; </code></pre> <p>^ my encryption key is made out of letters and a number, if that’s alright to use.</p> <p>I seen this was set to false so I set it to true</p> <pre><code> $config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE; </code></pre> <p>Here is the start of the cart controller…</p> <pre><code> class Dazcart extends CI_Controller { //adds item to shopping cart function Addtocart() { $item = array( 'id' =&gt; '42', 'name' =&gt; 'Octane Lean Build Fast', 'qty' =&gt; 1, 'price' =&gt; 347, 'options' =&gt; array ('flavor' =&gt; 'chocolate') ); $return = $this-&gt;cart-&gt;insert($item); echo "&lt;pre&gt;"; print_r($this-&gt;cart-&gt;contents()); echo "&lt;/pre&gt;"; } function Showcart() { $cartcontents = $this-&gt;cart-&gt;contents(); echo "&lt;pre&gt;"; print_r($cartcontents); echo "&lt;/pre&gt;"; } } </code></pre> <p>Now every time I load /Dazcart/Addtocart it confirms that the item was successfully stored into the cart via the print_r statement.</p> <p>But if I load /dazcart/Showcart the print_r statement just shows an empty array, telling me that he data isn’t being passed across the session. >: (</p> <p>I know this is newbie stuff but I’ve spent hours on it now and I am new to Code Igniter. I just want to figure this out move on so I can learn more and get my site up and running. #frustrated</p> <p>Appreciate your help.</p> <p>Update:</p> <p>Sure here are my session settings in the config file</p> <pre><code> $config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'cisession'; $config['sess_expiration'] = 7200; $config['sess_expire_on_close'] = FALSE; $config['sess_encrypt_cookie'] = FALSE; $config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE; $config['sess_table_name'] = 'ci_sessions'; $config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE; $config['sess_match_useragent'] = TRUE; $config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300; </code></pre> <p>I noticed $config['sess_use_database'] was false originally I set that to true.</p> <p>If CI doesn't use normal php sessions, how do I do a session dump?</p>
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    1. COCan you post your CI session settings?
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    2. COAre you sure, that the session is working? After insert, dump your CI session
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    3. COAlso, it's not entirely true that CI stores sessions in the database - they're primarily stored directly in cookies; the database is just used as an optional backup system to prevent users from modifying their cookies.
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