Elegant Solution for Array Session - Ecommerce Basket

[eluser]Dave Stewart[/eluser]
Something I just thought of (but haven't production-tested) would be to assign values to one variable by assigning a more-easily named by-reference pointer to it:

Code:

// start session
    session_start();
    
// create a short-named by-reference pointer to the long-winded-variable-name
// (note the & in front of the variable name)
    $username = &$_SESSION['user']['name'];
    
// assign the value to the variable via the referenced pointer
    if(!isset($username)){
        $username = 'Dave';
        }

// check the session variable
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($_SESSION);
    echo "</pre>";

Not sure if that helps your problem or not, but it was interesting to play with anyway.