Ecommerce developers with Magento

Sometimes, clients requirements exceed the defaults built into the Magento. Recently we came across a task that among other things required manipulation of bundle products in Magento. In order to help my coworker Tomas I wrote this little code snippet that programatically adds bundle product to cart.

$params = array(
    'product' => 164,
    'related_product' => null,
    'bundle_option' => array(
        21 => 58,
        20 => 55,
        11 => 28,
        12 => array(
            0 => 31,
        ),
        13 => array(
            0 => 32,
            1 => 35,
        ),
    ),
    'options' => array(
        3 => 'olaaaaaaaa',
    ),
    'qty' => 2,
);

$cart = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart');

$product = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Product();
$product->load(164);

$cart->addProduct($product, $params);
$cart->save();

Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->setCartWasUpdated(true);

$message = $this->__('Custom message: %s was successfully added to your shopping cart.', $product->getName());
Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->addSuccess($message);

The above source code might need a bit explanation. There are two major things to keep an eye on bundle product view page, custom options and bundle items.

Custom options are set in the array

    'options' => array(
        3 => 'olaaaaaaaa',
    ),

And bundle item options are set in array

    'bundle_option' => array(
        21 => 58,
        20 => 55,
        11 => 28,
        12 => array(
            0 => 31,
        ),
        13 => array(
            0 => 32,
            1 => 35,
        ),
    ),

Check out the screenshot for additional info.

In summary “all” you need to do is to send the proper field name-values as a params. You can then use this code from within controller or as a fast fix from within view file.

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