Carts
Overview
Carts are a collection of products (or other custom purchasable types) that you would like to order. Carts belong to Users (which relate to Customers).
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Cart prices are dynamically calculated and are not stored (unlike Orders).
Carts
Lunar\Models\Cart
Field | Description |
---|---|
id | Unique ID for the cart. |
user_id | Can be null for guest users. |
customer_id | Can be null . |
merged_id | If a cart was merged with another cart, it defines the cart it was merged into. |
currency_id | Carts can only be for a single currency. |
channel_id | |
coupon_code | Can be null , stores a promotional coupon code, e.g. SALE20 . |
created_at | |
updated_at | When an order was created from the basket, via a checkout. |
meta | JSON data for saving any custom information. |
Creating a cart
$cart = \Lunar\Models\Cart::create([
'currency_id' => 1,
'channel_id' => 2,
]);
Cart Lines
Lunar\Models\CartLine
Field | Description |
---|---|
id | |
cart_id | |
purchasable_type | e.g. Lunar\Models\ProductVariant . |
purchasable_id | |
quantity | |
created_at | |
updated_at | |
meta | JSON data for saving any custom information. |
$cartLine = new \Lunar\Models\CartLine([
'cart_id' => 1,
'purchasable_type' => ProductVariant::class,
'purchasable_id' => 123,
'quantity' => 2,
'meta' => [
'personalization' => 'Love you mum xxx',
]
]);
// Or you can use the relationship on the cart.
$cart->lines()->create([/* .. */]);
Now you have a basic Cart up and running, it's time to show you how you would use the cart to get all the calculated totals and tax.
We've also tried to make Carts extendable as much as possible so, depending on what your stores requirements are, you are free to chop and change things as much as you need to.
Hydrating the cart totals
$cart->calculate();
This will create a "hydrated" version of your cart with the following:
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All values will return a Lunar\Datatypes\Price
object. So you have access to the following: value
, formatted
, decimal
$cart->total; // The total price value for the cart
$cart->subTotal; // The cart sub total, excluding tax
$cart->subTotalDiscounted; // The cart sub total, minus the discount amount.
$cart->shippingTotal; // The monetary value for the shipping total. (if applicable)
$cart->taxTotal; // The monetary value for the amount of tax applied.
$cart->taxBreakdown; // This is a collection of all taxes applied across all lines.
$cart->discountTotal; // The monetary value for the discount total.
$cart->discountBreakdown; // This is a collection of how discounts were calculated
$cart->shippingSubTotal; // The shipping total, excluding tax.
$cart->shippingTotal; // The shipping total including tax.
$cart->shippingBreakdown; // This is a collection of the shipping breakdown for the cart.
foreach ($cart->taxBreakdown as $taxRate) {
$taxRate->name
$taxRate->total->value
}
foreach ($cart->shippingBreakdown->items as $shippingBreakdown) {
$shippingBreakdown->name;
$shippingBreakdown->identifier;
$shippingBreakdown->price->formatted();
}
foreach ($cart->discountBreakdown as $discountBreakdown) {
$discountBreakdown->discount_id
foreach ($discountBreakdown->lines as $discountLine) {
$discountLine->quantity
$discountLine->line
}
$discountBreakdown->total->value
}
foreach ($cart->discountBreakdown as $discountBreakdown) {
$discountBreakdown->discount_id
foreach ($discountBreakdown->lines as $discountLine) {
$discountLine->quantity
$discountLine->line
}
$discountBreakdown->total->value
}
foreach ($cart->lines as $cartLine) {
$cartLine->unitPrice; // The monetary value for a single item.
$cartLine->total; // The total price value for the cart
$cartLine->subTotal; // The sub total, excluding tax
$cartLine->subTotalDiscounted; // The sub total, minus the discount amount.
$cartLine->taxAmount; // The monetary value for the amount of tax applied.
$cartLine->taxBreakdown; // This is a collection of all taxes applied across all lines.
$cartLine->discountTotal; // The monetary value for the discount total.
}
Modifying Carts
If you need to programmatically change the Cart values, e.g. custom discounts or prices, you will want to extend the Cart.
You can find out more in the Extending Lunar section for Cart Extending.
Calculating Tax
During the cart's lifetime, it's unlikely you will have access to any address information, which can be a pain when you want to accurately display the amount of tax applied to the basket. Moreover, some countries don't even show tax until they reach the checkout. We've tried to make this as easy and extendable as possible for you as the developer to build your store.
When you calculate the cart totals, you will be able to set the billing and/or shipping address on the cart, which will then be used when we calculate which tax breakdowns should be applied.
$shippingAddress = [
'country_id' => null,
'title' => null,
'first_name' => null,
'last_name' => null,
'company_name' => null,
'line_one' => null,
'line_two' => null,
'line_three' => null,
'city' => null,
'state' => null,
'postcode' => 'H0H 0H0',
'delivery_instructions' => null,
'contact_email' => null,
'contact_phone' => null,
'meta' => null,
];
$billingAddress = /** .. */;
$cart->setShippingAddress($shippingAddress);
$cart->setBillingAddress($billingAddress);
You can also pass through a \Lunar\Models\Address
model, or even another \Lunar\Models\CartAddress
$shippingAddress = \Lunar\Models\Address::first();
$cart->setShippingAddress($shippingAddress);
$cart->setBillingAddress(
$cart->shippingAddress
);
Cart Session Manager
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The cart session manager is useful if you're building a traditional Laravel storefront which makes use of sessions.
When building a store, you're going to want an easy way to fetch the cart for the current user (or guest user) by retrieving it from their current session. Lunar provides an easy to use class to make this easier for you, so you don't have to keep reinventing the wheel.
Available config
Configuration for your cart is handled in lunar/cart.php
Field | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
session_key | What key to use when storing the cart id in the session | lunar_cart |
auto_create | If no current basket exists, should we create one in the database? | false |
auth_policy | When a user logs in, how should we handle merging of the basket? | merge |
eager_load | Which relationships should be eager loaded by default when calculating the cart totals |
Getting the cart session instance
You can either use the facade or inject the CartSession
into your code.
$cart = \Lunar\Facades\CartSession::current();
public function __construct(
protected \Lunar\Base\CartSessionInterface $cartSession
) {
// ...
}
Fetching the current cart
$cart = \Lunar\Facades\CartSession::current();
When you call current, you have two options, you either return null
if they don't have a cart, or you want to create one straight away. By default, we do not create them initially as this could lead to a ton of cart models being created for no good reason. If you want to enable this functionality, you can adjust the config in lunar/cart.php
Forgetting the cart
CartSession::forget();
Using a specific cart
You may want to manually specify which cart should be used for the session.
$cart = \Lunar\Models\Cart::first();
CartSessionManager::use($cart);
The other available methods are as follows:
Add a cart line
CartSession::add($purchasable, $quantity);
Add multiple lines
CartSession::addLines([
[
'id' => 1,
'quantity' => 25,
'meta' => ['foo' => 'bar'],
],
// ...
]);
Accepts a collection
or an array
Update a single line
CartSession::updateLine($cartLineId, $quantity, $meta);
Update multiple lines
CartSession::updateLines(collect([
[
'id' => 1,
'quantity' => 25,
'meta' => ['foo' => 'bar'],
],
// ...
]));
Remove a line
CartSession::removeLine($cartLineId);
Clear a cart
This will remove all lines from the cart.
CartSession::clear();
Associating a cart to a user
You can easily associate a cart to a user.
CartSession::associate($user, 'merge');
Associating a cart to a customer
You can easily associate a cart to a customer.
CartSession::setCustomer($customer);
Adding shipping/billing address
As outlined above, you can add shipping / billing addresses to the cart using the following methods:
$cart->setShippingAddress([
'first_name' => null,
'last_name' => null,
'line_one' => null,
'line_two' => null,
'line_three' => null,
'city' => null,
'state' => null,
'postcode' => null,
'country_id' => null,
]);
$cart->setBillingAddress([
'first_name' => null,
'last_name' => null,
'line_one' => null,
'line_two' => null,
'line_three' => null,
'city' => null,
'state' => null,
'postcode' => null,
'country_id' => null,
]);
You can easily retrieve these addresses by accessing the appropriate property:
$cart->shippingAddress;
$cart->billingAddress;
Handling User Login
When a user logs in, you will likely want to check if they have a cart associated to their account and use that, or if they have started a cart as a guest and logged in, you will likely want to be able to handle this. Lunar takes the pain out of this by listening to the authentication events and responding automatically by associating any previous guest cart they may have had and, depending on your auth_policy
merge or override the basket on their account.
Determining cart changes
Carts by nature are dynamic, which means anything can change at any moment. This means it can be quite challenging to determine whether a card has changed from the one currently loaded, for example, if the user goes to check out and changes their cart on another tab, how does the checkout know there has been a change?
To help this, a cart will have a fingerprint generated which you can check to determine whether there has been any changes and if so, refresh the cart.
$cart->fingerprint();
try {
$cart->checkFingerprint('4dfAW33awd');
} catch (\Lunar\Exceptions\FingerprintMismatchException $e) {
//... Refresh the cart.
}
Changing the underlying class.
The class which generates the fingerprint is referenced in config/lunar/cart.php
.
return [
// ...
'fingerprint_generator' => Lunar\Actions\Carts\GenerateFingerprint::class,
];
In most cases you won't need to change this.