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[n00bert]

Hi,

Is there any way of showing only the last product added in the mini-cart, rather than all items added?

Like a lot of x-cart users, I've got my minicart in the header, to the right of my logo.
Obviously, there's not much vertical space, so I need a small box displaying the last added item, along with whatever the minicart normally displays; total, items etc.

Any help with this would be much appreciated!

n00bert

[inebriate]

in minicart.php add the code below before "?>"

if (!empty($cart["products"]) and is_array($cart["products"]))
{
	$smarty->assign("last_item_added", end($cart["products"]));
}

and in minicart.tpl use $last_item_added and its associated values, ie: $last_item_added.productid


...however when you add a similar product it will not get updated, it requires a bit more code

[n00bert]

Hi inebriate,

Thanks for your quick reply. I need to know one more thing though.

In minicart.tpl, there is a {foreach} which I'm guessing gets the results of an array. Is there any way of reversing those results ?
I'd like to display all products added to the minicart in <td>s, but in reverse order, so that the last added item's details would appear in the top most <td>, i.e. first in the HTML source.

Again, any help or ideas are much appreciated!

n00bert

[n00bert]

To update, I googled the php function array_flip(), which apparently does what I need. However, I have no idea how to use this...

[inebriate]

i take it that you are using the minicart mod in the completed mod section...what you want is array_reverse instead of array_flip

in minicart.php,
replace

$smarty->assign("minicart_contents", $cart["products"]);

with

$smarty->assign("minicart_contents", array_reverse($cart["products"]));

[n00bert]

Perfect! Thank you so much inebriate. Works like a charm!

[n00bert]

OH NO!!

It worked for about 5 minutes, now I get the following smarty error:

Warning: array_reverse() [function.array-reverse]: The argument should be an array in /home/username/public_html/minicart.php on line 65

any ideas how to get round this?

[n00bert]

I was checking out the smarty manual for array_reverse. I applied the sample code to the {foreach} in minicart.tpl.

I changed this line:

 {foreach from=$minicart_contents item=item}

to this:

 {foreach from=$minicart_contents|@array_reverse:true item=item}

Seems to be working fine.

Is there any disadvantage to using smarty rather than PHP? Is it more server-intensive?

thanks,
n00bert