For the last two days I’ve been working on a custom checkout page for one of our clients. Basicaly a page can be shown in Magento using simple Core_Template type. Basically all code is set inside the .phtml file so it can be shown on every possible page or block, meaning it’s object independent, no inheritance. Something you can call from with your layout files like
<block type=”core/template” name=”checkout_customcart” template=”checkout/customcart.phtml” />
To complete my work, I had two mayor requirements. One was to manage my way around programmable adding a simple products to cart, plus their quantity and other was to do checkout with items in cart. Checkout was to be made with predefined payment method as well as shipping method. After reviewing a lot of Magento’s code involved in checkout process and process of adding products to cart and so on I’ve put together what I see as the most short example one can use to do a checkout with such predefined conditions.
If you have such special requirements for your site below is the code that you can place on whatever file you wish and include it yout tempalte as block type core/template.
$checkout = Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/type_onepage’);
/*
* One page checkout consists of following steps
* (1) Customer login method aka Checkout method
* (2) Billing information (address)
* (3) Shipping information (address)
* (4) Shipping method
* (5) Payment information
* (6) Order review, in short: DO THE ORDER
*/
//STEP(1)
$checkout->saveCheckoutMethod(‘guest’);
//STEP(2)
$checkout->saveBilling($billingAddress, false);
//STEP(3)
$checkout->saveShipping($shippingAddress, false);
//STEP(4)
$checkout->saveShippingMethod(‘flatrate_flatrate’);
//STEP(5)
$checkout->savePayment(array(‘method’=>’checkmo’));
//STEP(6)
/*
* $checkout->saveOrder() returns array holding empty object
* of type Mage_Checkout_Model_Type_Onepage
*/
$checkout->saveOrder();
And here is the example of how the $address variables are supose to look
[billing] => Array
(
[address_id] => 5
[firstname] => Branko
[lastname] => Ajzele
[company] => Surgeworks
[email] => ajzele@somemail.com
[street] => Array
(
[0] => Address part 1
[1] => Address part 2
)
[city] => Osijek
[region_id] =>
[region] =>
[postcode] => 31000
[country_id] => HR
[telephone] => 0038531000331
[fax] => 0038531000332
[customer_password] =>
[confirm_password] =>
[save_in_address_book] => 1
)
[shipping] => Array
(
[address_id] => 6
[firstname] => Ivan
[lastname] => Weiller
[company] => Surgeworks
[street] => Array
(
[0] => Address part 1
[1] => Address part 2
)
[city] => Osijek
[region_id] =>
[region] =>
[postcode] => 31000
[country_id] => HR
[telephone] => 0038531000333
[fax] => 0038531000334
[save_in_address_book] => 1
)
And you can wrapp the above checkout code into something like
if($this->getRequest()->getParam(‘submitCustomCheckout’))
{
//Checkout code from above…
}
Where ubmitCustomCheckout is the name of the submit button or submit input field. To extract addresses you can use something like
$billingAddress = $this->getRequest()->getParam(‘billing’);
$billingAddress['use_for_shipping'] = 0;
$shippingAddress = $this->getRequest()->getParam(‘shipping’);
That’s it. Simple, predefined checkout by whitch order can be make on one click.
I want to change the Paypal redirecting page in Magento
means that if i m placing the order using Paypal Payment Method then i will automatically redirect to the Paypal information page means Paypal Account detail page.
That page i want to change. if u have any idea then tell me please it is very important for me.
Thanks,
Kartik
I know it’s a little off-topic, but if you are in a position where predefining the OPC steps isn’t the solution (as we did), you might want to use our horizontal one step checkout design. It’s more intuitive then the default vertical accordeon design and it hasn’t got the downsides of the commercial one step checkout. It’s a css only solution: http://www.h-o.nl/blog/improved_magento_one_page_checkout_design_css_only/
Hi,
I know this is also a little off topic but fits in with the general theme of this post…
I need to add an extra stage to the magento onepage checkout module. How would I go about adding an additional stage on the end of the onecheckout feature in the local repos rather than modifying the core section?
Ignore my previous post, I found your other post here about adding additional tabs correctly :
http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/adding-a-new-tab-under-one-page-checkout-full-working-module/
Thankyou very much for these guides and sample code, they are priceless!
Hey,
I roughly used the lines from kris’ comment to realize my checkout. This worked fine for three month since yesterday. Since then I got two double-orders. The first time with two following order-ids, the same products in each and confirmation emails sent out in the same second. The second time only the first confirmation had an order-id, the second had none, no products and was sent one second later.
I could reproduce the second case by opening two carts and starting two parallel checkouts.
Anyone to whom this sounds familiar? Any suggestions?
Johannes
johannes – that certainly is strange…
barring a more elegant solution, perhaps an if( ) statement to check for a null order id?
hey kris,
thanks for the fast reply! to check the order-id is a good idea … it came up to my mind also, after writing the comment. it will catch the second case. in the first one there was a proper id … don’t know how this could happen and i cannot reproduce it. maybe just a strange coincidence that won’t happen again.
johannes
are you running either a web server or php application optimizer? (so either for IIS or apache, or for php itself)? parallel threads getting too greedy and attempting to serve the same request would create a race condition.
kris: the page is running on a magento-optimized web-hosting at mittwald.de – a leading magento-hoster. i’d guess they know what they do. but thanks for the hint!
if it happens again, i’ll ask them about their optimizers.
Hi,
i try to create new template and doing this all code in this template but it’s not working so can you please explain me where i can insert the code so it’s working correctly.
thanks in advance
Checkout the following URL The customers can quickly fill in the personal information and payment methods and complete the purchase: http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Magento/OneStepCheckout
At least for me in 1.6.x, looks like, between step 5 and 6, you need:
$checkout->getQuote()->getPayment()->importData($payment);
Where $payment is the payment POST data.
Cool. Thanks a lot/
I prefer Lightcheckout of gomage – one page checkout exetsion. I’ve just installed it – no need to change code. Also I can set delivery date and verify VAT – best solution for me. http://www.gomage.com/extensions/gomage-lightcheckout.html
Any idea why the checkout won’t work for users that register in the checkout process?
error log says that “gender” column is not to be found.
It’s disabled in the backend so it makes no sense
Hi, I am trying to get a script working that will allow me run the check out process against a specific customers cart. I get an error when the script hits the
Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/type_onepage’); line.
The error says: “Fatal error: Cannot use object of type Mage_Checkout_Model_Type_Onepage as array in /home/leesavo/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php on line 338″
login(‘*****’, ‘*****’);
require_once (“../app/Mage.php”);
$model = Mage::app(‘default’);
$email = ‘*******’;
$customer = Mage::getModel(‘customer/customer’);
$customer->setWebsiteId($model->getWebsite()->getId());
$customer->loadByEmail($email);
Mage::getSingleton(‘customer/session’)->loginById($customer->getId());
$cart = Mage::getModel(‘checkout/cart’);
//$storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
$checkout = Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/type_onepage’);
//$checkout->initCheckout();
//$checkout->saveCheckoutMethod(‘register’);
//$checkout->saveShippingMethod(‘flatrate_flatrate’);
//$checkout->savePayment(array(‘method’=>’checkmo’));
//try {
// $checkout->saveOrder();
//}
//catch (Exception $ex) {
// echo $ex->getMessage();
//}
/* Clear the cart */
//$cart->truncate();
//$cart->save();
//$cart->getItems()->clear()->save();
/* Logout the customer you created */
//Mage::getSingleton(‘customer/session’)->logout();
?>
There is some stuff commented out, but it errors out at the same line regardless. I am extraordinarily new at this and would appreciate any help.
Regards,
Jeremy
Hi, i would like to add some kind of gift wrap checkbox that could add an extra cost to the shipping method selected, do you have any ideas how could this be achieved. Thanks.
Hi,
This was very useful, but I just need one more small bit of information. I want to add status comment too while checkout process. The Status comment history is managed in Magento. I want to add a comment while I do $checkout->saveOrder();
is it possible ?
http://www.mypetcrates.com Tried this approach but it did not work for me, keep getting a weird error and when i worked around my compilation problem I keep getting an insecure checkout version.
Hi,
I need some help knowing “Register As Guest User” not working on checkout page.
Please let me know anything regarding this..?
I am new to it
Thanks