well, you could simply loop through the session vars and build the query as
you go.
$query = "SELECT * FROM Inventory WHERE";
// I'm assuming you keep your item numbers in a "items" or something similar
foreach ($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['items'] as $pid)
$subquery .= " ItemNumber = '$pid' OR ";
// get rid of last _OR_
$subquery = ereg_replace('[:space:]OR[:space:]$', '', $subquery);
// put the query together
$query = $query . $subquery;
// add more crap to query if you want
$query .= " and some_other_column='something_else'";
Jim Grill
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From: "Anup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: [PHP] mySQL Queries using PHP's SESSION variables
> Hello, I am stuck here. In the name of efficiency I want to lower the
number
> of callls to the database. So I am trying to give the most stringent query
> possible. This is the problem: I have stored the surfers shopping cart,
> where each item is stored as a session variable.Now on the database I have
> ALL inventory items, but I want to only display the details of what the
user
> has in his cart.
> eg. : I want something like this:
>
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * from Inventory where ItemNumber is in
> $HTTP_SESSION_VARS");
> // I need proper syntax to replace "is in"
>
> where Inventory has, ItemNumber (unique), Price, ItemName.
> So say the surfer has three items in the Session, then I stored the three
> unique ItemNumbers.
> Then with the above query I can get the rest of the information to
represent
> to the user.
> I am looking down the avenues of a Set datastyp or maybe Enum, but I don't
> know if it will help.
>
>
>
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