CODEWITHSUNDEEP
magento
user789122
user789122

Reputation: 480

shopping cart observer

I am trying to work something out in Magento, but I'm not sure what the best way of doing things are.

I am selling fabric/material, which is expensive. I am therefore allowing customers to purchase 'samples' of these fabrics.

What I need to do is: * Each of these samples are free ($00.00), but.. * If the customer has 5 or more items (no more than 15 items) then I need to add a surcharge of $20 (to cover P&P etc)

So if a customer has added 8 samples to their cart, they need to be charged whatever they have in their cart currently, plus $20 for the samples.

Could I do this in an observer method?

Many thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7076

Answers (1)

Zachary Schuessler
Zachary Schuessler

Reputation: 3682

This can be done with an observer, yes. To find relevant events for you to use, use this in the command line:

grep -rin -B2 -A2 "Mage::dispatchEvent" app/* > events.txt

Now you can easily search the events.txt file for cart. Personally I would make an effort to update the cart, and not just update the total during checkout. Don't want to surprise visitors with any extra charges. So here are a few that might help:

checkout_cart_update_items_after
checkout_cart_product_add_after
checkout_cart_add_product_complete
checkout_cart_update_item_complete
checkout_cart_save_before
checkout_cart_save_after

Upvotes: 6

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