Quick Order Placement Form

If we want to place fast and quick order. We want to list all the product along with their categories  and price. For achieving this goal we have to follow these steps:

1) Create Template File: Create a template  file at /app/design/frontend/default/blanco/template/catalog/product/list_fast_order.phtml which will the list of all products along with their categories and Price listing.

2) Edit Layout: Before this we have to add the phtml file in catalog.xml file.

3) Get Result: In list_fast_order.phtml file we have to show the product category wise

       
/*assume we want to get all products of category id 5 */

$catid_1 = 5;

/*we are loading all the products from category id 5 */

$_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($catid_1);

$subs = $_category->getAllChildren(true);

/* Use for loop for making result array */

$result = array();

foreach($subs as $cat_id) {

                  $category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();

                  $category->load($cat_id);

                  $collection = $category->getProductCollection();

                  $result[$cat_id] = array();

                  foreach ($collection as $product) {

                                    $cat_name = $category->getName();

                                    $cat_url = $category->getUrl(); 

                  }

}

ksort($result);

4) Show Result: Use Table structure or Div to show the result array in list_fast_order.phtml .

       
<form name="frmQuickbuy" id="frmQuickbuy" style="margin:0px; padding:0px;">

 <table id="product_table" class="tablesorter" cellspacing="1" style="display:none;">

  <thead>

      <tr>

             <th><b><?php echo $this->__('Category') ?></b></th>

             <th><b><?php echo $this->__('Product') ?></b></th>    

             <th><b><?php echo $this->__('Price') ?></b></th> 

      </tr>

  </thead>

  <tbody>   

   <?php

   // All Products 

   foreach ($result as $cat) { 

       foreach ($cat as $p) {

           $_product = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Product();

           $_product->load($p["product_id"]);

           if($_product->isSaleable()) { ?>

   <tr>

    <td><a href="<?php echo $p["cat_url"] ?>" title="<?php echo $p["cat_name"]; ?>">

           <?php echo $p["cat_name"]; ?></a>

    </td>

    <td><a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" class="product_description" title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($_product->getDescription(), null, true) ?>">

            <?php echo $this->helper('catalog/output')->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getName(), 'name') ?></a>

    </td>

    <td><?php echo $_product->getSku() ?></td>    

   </tr>   

   <?php }}}?>

  </tbody>

 </table>

5) Create Ajax Functionality: We have to create an ajax which will send whole form data to an php file.

       
/*On click 'Add to cart' */

jQuery("#quickbuy_add_to_cart").live({

    click: function() {

    /*serialize form data*/    

    frm_data = jQuery("#frmQuickbuy").serialize();

    /*ajax code*/ 

    jQuery.ajax({

        url: '/addToCart.php',

        data: frm_data,

        success: function(data_results) {

            var tmp = data_results.split("|");

            if(!parseInt(tmp[0])) {

                jQuery("#quickbuy_add_to_cart").show();

                alert(tmp[1]);

            } else {

                window.location.href = '/checkout/cart/'; 

            }                                                                              

        }

    });     

    }

});

This will look something like this:

Image: Order Placement Form

6) Create addToCart.php at root or parallel to app folder.

       
/*code for addToCart.php starts from here*/
include_once 'app/Mage.php';

Mage::app();

try { 

        $request = Mage::app()->getRequest();

        /*store all serialize form data to variable $data */

        $data = $request->getParams();

        $products_to_add = array();

        /*assigning values from stored array */

       foreach($data["productdropdown"] as $product_id => $productcaseinfo) {

       if(isset($data["productdropdown"][$product_id]) && (int)$data["productdropdown"][$product_id]) {     

                          $products_to_add[] = array(

                                                                       "product_id"=>$product_id,

                                                                        "qty"=>1    

                                                                      );

        }

 } 

 $session = Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name'=>'frontend'));

 $cart = Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getCart(); 

 if($products_to_add) { foreach($products_to_add as $p) {  

                     $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($p["product_id"]);  

                     $arr = array();

                     $arr['qty'] = $p["qty"];  

                     $cart->addProduct($product, $arr);  

                     $session->setLastAddedProductId($product->getId());

                     $session->setCartWasUpdated(true);

 }}

 $cart->save(); 

 echo "1|";

} catch (Exception $e) {

 $result = "0|'".$e->getMessage()."'";

 echo $result;

}

7) Like this we can create an fast and quick order placement form in magento.

Author,
Mohit verma