After submitting a form, I receive an indexed array as a SQL-query result and the goal is to sum the column-specific values with previously collected results.
Example:
// 1st query result
$product_amount = [0.36, 0.14, 0.42]
// 2nd query result
$product_amount = [0.28, 0.12, 0.40]
// n-th query result
$product_amount = [0.16, 0.14, 0.42]
// the desired sum
$total = [0.80, 0.40, 1.24]
How to do it?
The code that creates an array:
function doseCount($num){
return ($num/100) * intval($_POST['portion']); //getting multiplier for productAmount() function
}
function productAmount(){
global $link; //connection to the MySQL server
if(isset($_POST['product'])){
$product_amount_query = 'SELECT va.vitamin_a, va.vitamin_b1, va.vitamin_b2, va.vitamin_b3, va.vitamin_b5,
va.vitamin_b6, va.vitamin_bc_b9, va.vitamin_b12, va.vitamin_c, va.vitamin_d, va.vitamin_e, va.biotin, va.vitamin_k,
va.flavonoids, va.lipoic_acid FROM products_list p, vitamins_amount va WHERE p.id = va.product_id AND p.name = ?';
$product_amount_stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $product_amount_query);
mysqli_stmt_bind_param($product_amount_stmt, "s", $_POST['product']);
mysqli_stmt_execute($product_amount_stmt);
$result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($product_amount_stmt);
$product = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_NUM);
return $product_final_result = array_map('doseCount', $product);
mysqli_stmt_close($product_amount_stmt);
mysqli_close($link);
}
}
$product_amount = productAmount();
After submit, the $product_amount
array gets new data and this new data must be added to the previously accumulated data.
This problem can be solved with proper use of sessions:
if (empty($_SESSION['product_amount'])){
$_SESSION['product_amount'] = $product_amount;
}else{
foreach ($_SESSION['product_amount'] as $key => $value) {
$_SESSION['product_amount'][$key] += $product_amount[$key];
}
}
Special thanks to Mawia HL for his help.