Richard Castera

Hello Richard,
I really like your blog...not just the information but the way you display the information.

I was wondering if there's a way to store custom options on the product page to be able to add into the shopping cart? The reason why I'm asking is I'm working on a project and I need complete flexibility over my custom options.

I have an eyeglass prescription website and adding prescription lenses process needs to be very unique and easy to use but I'm finding it very difficult to do this in Magento. I just want to add things in the custom options without it being checked and omitted.

Thanks Richard!

Hi Thanx Richard !!! its Works for me but i have one more Query..

how can i get Discount Price ?

Waiting for your help

Thanx again

Thanx Very very Much for this..

But have 1 more Query.. how can i get Discount Amount?i have applied Shopping Cart rules and want discount amount...

Can you help me

and can you tell me whats use of getSingleton

why its uses?

how can i use?

Thanx in Advance...

This is partially correct. It answers the question "Ever wanted to get the total price of items in your Magento cart formatted in a span with the price class and a dollar sign?
$138.00
The simple act of trying to just get the damn FLOAT value to assign to a variable is wasting my time.

As mentioned above, this returns the total price in a span tag like this (with tags instead of brackets):
$135.13

I used the PHP function str_replace to remove the span:

// Get grand total in cart

$grandTotal = $this->helper('checkout')->formatPrice(Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal());

// Remove span tag from result

$grandTotal = str_replace('<span class="price">', '', $grandTotal);

$grandTotal = str_replace('</span>', '', $grandTotal);

(Note that $grandTotal will still show the dollar sign or similar - not only the number)

Hi Richard!
Thanks a lot! Such a helpful tutorial. Can you please post a tutorial on custom payment gateway creation in magento.

=)

Thanks for the code! Now, how to get items and their names in an array??