Codeigniter Cart Product Names Fix - Papertank

MY_Cart.php

<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct access allowed.');

class MY_Cart extends CI_Cart {
 
  public $CI;

  function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();

    $this->CI =& get_instance();

  } 
  
	function format_number($n = '')
	{
		if ($n == '')
		{
			return '';
		}
	
		// Remove anything that isn't a number or decimal point.
		$n = trim(preg_replace('/([^0-9\.])/i', '', $n));
	
		return number_format($n, 2, '.', '');
	}
	
	/**
	 * Insert
	 *
	 * @access	private
	 * @param	array
	 * @return	bool
	 */
	function _insert($items = array())
	{
		// Was any cart data passed? No? Bah...
		if ( ! is_array($items) OR count($items) == 0)
		{
			log_message('error', 'The insert method must be passed an array containing data.');
			return FALSE;
		}

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// Does the $items array contain an id, quantity, price, and name?  These are required
		if ( ! isset($items['id']) OR ! isset($items['qty']) OR ! isset($items['price']) OR ! isset($items['name']))
		{
			log_message('error', 'The cart array must contain a product ID, quantity, price, and name.');
			return FALSE;
		}

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// Prep the quantity. It can only be a number.  Duh...
		$items['qty'] = trim(preg_replace('/([^0-9])/i', '', $items['qty']));
		// Trim any leading zeros
		$items['qty'] = trim(preg_replace('/(^[0]+)/i', '', $items['qty']));

		// If the quantity is zero or blank there's nothing for us to do
		if ( ! is_numeric($items['qty']) OR $items['qty'] == 0)
		{
			return FALSE;
		}

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// Validate the product ID. It can only be alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores or periods
		// Not totally sure we should impose this rule, but it seems prudent to standardize IDs.
		// Note: These can be user-specified by setting the $this->product_id_rules variable.
		if ( ! preg_match("/^[".$this->product_id_rules."]+$/i", $items['id']))
		{
			log_message('error', 'Invalid product ID.  The product ID can only contain alpha-numeric characters, dashes, and underscores');
			return FALSE;
		}

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// Validate the product name. It can only be alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores, colons or periods.
		// Note: These can be user-specified by setting the $this->product_name_rules variable.
		/*
if ( ! preg_match("/^[".$this->product_name_rules."]+$/i", $items['name']))
		{
			log_message('error', 'An invalid name was submitted as the product name: '.$items['name'].' The name can only contain alpha-numeric characters, dashes, underscores, colons, and spaces');
			return FALSE;
		}
*/

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// Prep the price.  Remove anything that isn't a number or decimal point.
		$items['price'] = trim(preg_replace('/([^0-9\.])/i', '', $items['price']));
		// Trim any leading zeros
		$items['price'] = trim(preg_replace('/(^[0]+)/i', '', $items['price']));

		// Is the price a valid number?
		if ( ! is_numeric($items['price']))
		{
			log_message('error', 'An invalid price was submitted for product ID: '.$items['id']);
			return FALSE;
		}

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// We now need to create a unique identifier for the item being inserted into the cart.
		// Every time something is added to the cart it is stored in the master cart array.
		// Each row in the cart array, however, must have a unique index that identifies not only
		// a particular product, but makes it possible to store identical products with different options.
		// For example, what if someone buys two identical t-shirts (same product ID), but in
		// different sizes?  The product ID (and other attributes, like the name) will be identical for
		// both sizes because it's the same shirt. The only difference will be the size.
		// Internally, we need to treat identical submissions, but with different options, as a unique product.
		// Our solution is to convert the options array to a string and MD5 it along with the product ID.
		// This becomes the unique "row ID"
		if (isset($items['options']) AND count($items['options']) > 0)
		{
			$rowid = md5($items['id'].implode('', $items['options']));
		}
		else
		{
			// No options were submitted so we simply MD5 the product ID.
			// Technically, we don't need to MD5 the ID in this case, but it makes
			// sense to standardize the format of array indexes for both conditions
			$rowid = md5($items['id']);
		}

		// --------------------------------------------------------------------

		// Now that we have our unique "row ID", we'll add our cart items to the master array

		// let's unset this first, just to make sure our index contains only the data from this submission
		unset($this->_cart_contents[$rowid]);

		// Create a new index with our new row ID
		$this->_cart_contents[$rowid]['rowid'] = $rowid;

		// And add the new items to the cart array
		foreach ($items as $key => $val)
		{
			$this->_cart_contents[$rowid][$key] = $val;
		}

		// Woot!
		return TRUE;
	}
	
	
  
}

Perfect, it saved my life already on production!

Why don't you gist it publicly?