Magento – Adding products to cart via url

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I'm planning to do a website that opens directly on the cart page, in the cart it needs to have some products already selected and it should be ready to go to the checkout page.

What I need to do is to add, every time the user goes to the page, some products.

The thing is I've already done it one time, but it was 3/4 months ago and now I can't remember anything about it. The only thing I remember is that I've changed in dashboard->catalog->url rewrite management and there I've put the rule to redirect the homepage on this link

http://WEBSITE/index.php/checkout/cart/add?product=1&related_product=2

And on the test website it works well, I have the cart section with product 1 and 2 visible

Now I'm trying to do this step on the "official" website but every time I try to access the website I have the cart section and it tells me "No products in your cart"

So I'm thinking that I need to put the form_key somewhere but I can't find anything about it

for both the website I have Magento 1.9

Best Answer

Please try with this.

<a href="http://example.com/index.php/checkout/cart/add/product/1/form_key/<?php echo Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getFormKey(); ?>/">My cart</a>

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Checkout – Change Template Based on Products in Cart

The cleanest way to do this is will use observers and custom layout XML. For that you will need to create your own extension. Inchoo has a nice hello world article that should get you started and you can read more about observers in this Magento Board post.

You will need to hook the controller_action_layout_load_before event. Add this to your config.xml.

<controller_action_layout_load_before>
    <observers>
        <[module]>
            <type>singleton</type>
            <class>[module]/observer</class>
            <method>addLayoutHandleObserver</method>
        </[module]>
    </observers>
</controller_action_layout_load_before>

Your Observer would use your code to check for the specific product and if present add a layout handle to the generate Layout XML. This will enable us to target it from a layout xml file.

class [Namespace]_[Module]_Model_Observer
{
    public function addLayoutHandleObserver(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
    {

        $items = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getAllItems();

        $logo_cart = false;
        foreach ($items as $_item) 
        {
            $get_attributes = $_item->getProduct()->getTypeInstance(true)->getOrderOptions($_item->getProduct());
            $attributes = $get_attributes['attributes_info'];
            foreach($attributes as $attribute) {
                if($attribute['value'] == 'Has Logo') {
                    $logo_cart = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
           if ($logo_cart) break;
        }

        if ($logo_cart)
        {
            $layout = $observer->getAction()->getLayout();
            $layout->getUpdate()->addHandle('checkout_has_logo');
            $layout->generateXml();
        }

        return $this;
    }
}

Now we can add some custom layout updates from, for example, the local.xml.

<checkout_has_logo>
    <reference name="checkout.onepage">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>checkout/onepage_logo.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
</checkout_has_logo>

Magento 1.8 Cart – Fix Adding to Cart with Querystring Redirecting to Homepage

The url for adding needs to include a form_key.

/checkout/cart/add/product/554/form_key/QOTCSV8HqoLA0K3T/

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