Magento Clear Shopping Cart and Session

Antonio — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:29:21 +0000

If you ever need to programmatically clear Magento’s shopping cart, use the snippet of code below. If you need to clear the user’s entire session, including the shopping cart, shipping information, billing information and chosen payment methods, please refer to the snippet further below.

Clear shopping cart

foreach( Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getItemsCollection() as $item ){
    Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->removeItem( $item->getId() )->save();
}

Clear entire session

Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/session’)->clear();

Happy coding!

Magento Skip Login/Registration at Checkout

Antonio — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:05:13 +0000

A client wanted every checkout on his site to be a guest checkout. He was selling a very niche product and wanted to avoid hassling potential customers with a user log-in or registration form. The goal was to modify Magento’s One Page Checkout to completely skip Step 1: Login/Register and show Step 2: Billing Information.

We are going to:

Hide Step 1
Tell Magento that Step 1 was “completed” as Guest
Have Step 2 appear as Step 1

Here goes:

1. Hiding Step 1 – Login/Register

Open /app/design/frontend///template/checkout/onepage.phtml

Find:

<li id="opc-" {...}

And replace it with:

<li ==1 ? 'style="display:none;"' : '' ?> id="opc-"  {...}

2. Set Step 1 to equal Guest

Open /app/design/frontend///template/checkout/onepage/login.phtml

Basically, comment everything out and insert:

<input type="hidden" name="checkout_method" id="login:guest" value="guest" checked="checked" />
<script type="text/javascript">
Event.observe(window, 'load', function() {
checkout.setMethod();
});
</script>

3. Make Step 2 look like Step 1

Open /app/design/frontend///template/checkout/onepage.phtml

Find:

$i=0; foreach($this->getSteps() as $_stepId => $_stepInfo):

And replace it with:

$i=-1; foreach($this->getSteps() as $_stepId => $_stepInfo):

Finally, in the same file, change this snippet that we added in step 1:

echo $i==1

to:

echo $i===0

And there you have it. Credit goes to poster imagebox on this particular Magento how-to thread

Solution Log | Antonio David - NVNCBL » checkout

Magento Clear Shopping Cart and Session

Magento Skip Login/Registration at Checkout