I'm creating a WooCommerce product programmatically (Create product via CRUD) and wants to add it to its cart.
Code I'm using is marked as legacy (WC_Cart)
$cart = new WC_Cart();
$cart->add_to_cart($product_id);
The question: Is there a newer way to add product(s) to the cart?
I'm creating a WooCommerce product programmatically (Create product via CRUD) and wants to add it to its cart.
Code I'm using is marked as legacy (WC_Cart)
$cart = new WC_Cart();
$cart->add_to_cart($product_id);
The question: Is there a newer way to add product(s) to the cart?
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Reset to default 1The question: Is there a newer way to add product(s) to the cart?
Well, WC_Cart::add_to_cart() is still the way to do it.
Except (on the front-end), there's no need to reinstantiate the cart class:
$cart = new WC_Cart();
because the main WooCommerce class already instantiates WC_Cart, and you can easily access the class instance like so:
$cart = wc()->cart;
//$cart = WC()->cart; // same as above, but wc() (i.e. lowercase) is actually preferred :)
where wc() is a wrapper function that returns the main instance of the main WooCommerce class.
And to add a product into the cart, you can use either of these options:
// Option #1
wc()->cart->add_to_cart( $product_id );
// Option #2: Here we assign wc()->cart to a variable.
$cart = wc()->cart;
$cart->add_to_cart( $product_id );
Hope that helps! :)
WC()->cart->add_to_cart(). – Sally CJ Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 6:54WC()is a wrapper function for the instance of that class, andWC()->cartis theWC_Cartinstance, so there's no need tonew WC_Cart(). And there's a snippet here which might be helpful to you. :) – Sally CJ Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 7:49