If you’re using an external site with Magento as a backend for e-commerce functionality, you will notice that the shopping cart items doesn’t get deleted after you checkout. Actually in Magento, a shopping cart is a quote. So to remove everything in the shopping cart, you must delete the quote currently used by the user. To do this, follow the code below:
First, insert the Magento app snippets which can be found here
then use the code below to delete a quote:
<?php
$quoteID = Mage::getSingleton("checkout/session")->getQuote()->getId();
if($quoteID)
{
try {
$quote = Mage::getModel("sales/quote")->load($quoteID);
$quote->setIsActive(false);
$quote->delete();
return "cart deleted";
} catch(Exception $e) {
return $e->getMessage();
}
}else{
return "no quote found";
}
Is there anyway to just make a simple button on top that says “Empty Cart” that will empty the cart once clicked?
I know to get to those links (on the top right) you need to go to app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Block/Links.php but I am struggling finding a solution that works in v1.4.
Hello Kris!
Someone named Peaker did the same thing in my WordPress using Magento session article. Check it out here
I hope it will help you get started with your programming task.
Regards
Hello Richard,
One minor bug:
getQuote is a function so it should use braces like this: getQuote()
Thanks for sharing this code.
Oops! Didn’t see that one. Thanks for the note 🙂
What files is the code placed in Magento? I really need to get the cart emptied.
Hi Corey, the code above assumes that you’re using Magento’s Mage.php file to an external site, so it could be any file actually 🙂
What Magento file do you place the above code in? I’m using 1.4.1.1
Same as my reply above to Corey 🙂
Thanks Richard.
This is the perfect and simple solution to empty the cart.
Instead of doing like this given below
foreach ($this->_getQuote()->getAllItems() as $item) :
$this->_getCart()->removeItem($item->getId())->save();
endforeach;
You’re welcome Jerome 🙂
My shopping cart items doesn’t get deleted after you checkout and I’m not using an external site. This only happens when there is a registered user, but when a guest places and order the items get deleted. Thanks For the help
How can I get quote items of a customer and delete it?
How to get quote id on magento backend. I need all quoted items / product list at the time of order creation from magento backend
Works great bro….. 🙂
Nice article. It was very helpfull.