As a WooCommerce development freelancer, every day I repeat many coding operations that I keep forgetting over and over again!
This means I have to search through the WooCommerce plugin files again and again and waste a lot of precious time.
We’ve already seen how to get $product and $order information from their respective objects , so this time we’ll take a look at the Cart page and answer to: “How to get ____ if I have the $cart variable/object available?“.
For example, “How can I get the cart total“? Or “How can I get the cart items“? Or maybe the cart fees, the applied coupons, the cart contents total, the total weight and so on…
Hopefully this article will help you save time as well! Your feedback via Twitter and the blog comments section is much appreciated. Enjoy!
1. If you have access to $cart variable
Hooks (do_action and apply_filters) use additional arguments which are passed on to the function. If they allow you to use the “$cart” object you’re in business.
But because this is quite rare, we’ll move on to step 2 straight away. Just keep in mind that should you have the “$cart” object at your disposal, this is the exact same as “WC()->cart” object, which you can call globally on any frontend section of your WooCommerce website.
In a nutshell:
$cart = WC()->cart;
2. If you don’t have access to $cart
If you don’t have direct access to the $cart object, you can invoke it globally on any page of your WooCommerce website. That’s the beauty of WC()->cart; the Cart page uses this method for example to load the cart object, and so can you, anywhere you like.
// $cart conditionals (if)
WC()->cart->is_empty()
WC()->cart->needs_payment()
WC()->cart->show_shipping()
WC()->cart->needs_shipping()
WC()->cart->needs_shipping_address()
WC()->cart->display_prices_including_tax()
// Get $cart totals
WC()->cart->get_cart_contents_count();
WC()->cart->get_cart_subtotal();
WC()->cart->subtotal_ex_tax;
WC()->cart->subtotal;
WC()->cart->get_displayed_subtotal();
WC()->cart->get_taxes_total();
WC()->cart->get_shipping_total();
WC()->cart->get_coupons();
WC()->cart->get_coupon_discount_amount( 'coupon_code' );
WC()->cart->get_fees();
WC()->cart->get_discount_total();
WC()->cart->get_total();
WC()->cart->total;
WC()->cart->get_tax_totals();
WC()->cart->get_cart_contents_tax();
WC()->cart->get_fee_tax();
WC()->cart->get_discount_tax();
WC()->cart->get_shipping_total();
WC()->cart->get_shipping_taxes();
// Loop over $cart items
foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {
$product = $cart_item['data'];
$product_id = $cart_item['product_id'];
$variation_id = $cart_item['variation_id'];
$quantity = $cart_item['quantity'];
$price = WC()->cart->get_product_price( $product );
$subtotal = WC()->cart->get_product_subtotal( $product, $cart_item['quantity'] );
$link = $product->get_permalink( $cart_item );
// Anything related to $product, check $product tutorial
$attributes = $product->get_attributes();
$whatever_attribute = $product->get_attribute( 'whatever' );
$whatever_attribute_tax = $product->get_attribute( 'pa_whatever' );
$any_attribute = $cart_item['variation']['attribute_whatever'];
$meta = wc_get_formatted_cart_item_data( $cart_item );
}
// Get $cart customer billing / shipping
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_first_name();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_last_name();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_company();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_email();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_phone();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_country();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_state();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_postcode();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_city();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_address();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_billing_address_2();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_first_name();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_last_name();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_company();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_country();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_state();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_postcode();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_city();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_address();
WC()->cart->get_customer()->get_shipping_address_2();
// Other stuff
WC()->cart->get_cross_sells();
WC()->cart->get_cart_item_tax_classes_for_shipping();
WC()->cart->get_cart_hash();
WC()->cart->get_customer();