How to pre populate the commerce shopping cart with products

Question

Is there a way to pre populate the Shopping cart with all products similar to this example? http://www.taytocrisps.ie/park/book_tickets

I only have 5 products on the site and I want to skip one step and add to all products to the cart. The user then selects the number of the products in the cart and goes straight to billing information and payment.

Answer 1

I implemented a hook_menu with callback that adds specific product variation from the arguments to the cart and then redirects the user to cart. With same logic you could toss in all the products you wish. Mayby just additionally check that that cart is initially empty.

function x_menu(){
    $items['tickets'] = array(
      'page callback' => 'x_tickets_callback',
      'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    );
    return $items;
}

function x_tickets_callback(){
    global $user;

    // mayby check that cart is empty here

    // you should get these really from some variable
    for($i = 1, $i<7,$i++){
      $commerce_product = commerce_product_load($i);
      // create line item from product
      $line_item = commerce_product_line_item_new($commerce_product);
      commerce_cart_product_add($user->uid, $line_item);
    }
    // prevent notification
    $messages = drupal_get_messages();
    drupal_goto('cart');
}