Orders

Overview

Here is a brief overview how carts and orders work:

When you add an item to the cart, a new Order is created, with the status of "cart". In other words: a cart is just an order with a status of "cart".

When you mark the order as complete, the status is changed to "completed".

The good thing is that you don't need to worry about all this. To get an instance of the cart, just use:

$cart = Cart::get();

This will give you the existing cart, or create a fresh one if needed.

Then to mark the order as completed:

$completedOrder = Cart::markAsCompleted();

Order Status

By default there are 2 order statuses:

Retrieving Orders

In order to retrieve the completed orders, you should use this where clause:

$orders = Order::where('status', Order::STATUS_COMPLETED)->get();

// or this query scope 😎
$orders = Order::completed()->get();

HasOrders trait

We also provide a HasOrders trait which you can use with the User model, to get a orders relationship:

use YiddisheKop\LaravelCommerce\Traits\HasOrders;

class User {
  use HasOrders;
  // ...
}

public function index(Request $request) {
  // you can now get all the users' completed orders
  $orders = $request->user()->orders;
  //...
}

This will retrieve only the completed orders.