I've never had a problem like this using DBI before. 
sub show_cart {
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:xxx:xxxxx", "xx", "xx") || die $DBI:
+:errstr;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT id, prod_id, qty from cart where cook
+ie = ?") || die $DBI::errstr;
  $sth->execute($cart_id) || die  $sth->errstr();
        
print "NO ITEMS IN CART" unless $sth->fetchrow_array();
print $cart_id . '<br><br>'; # for testing
            
while (my ($id,$prod_id,$qty) = $sth->fetchrow_array()){
                
print "====== $id =====<br>";   # for testing
}

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this while loop will loop through all of the results excluding the last entry. Any ideas? This ever happened to you?

In reply to DBI forgets last record by Anonymous Monk

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