WooCommerce: Add input field to every item in cart

Question

I've been trying to add a single text input field to every item in the cart and submit that user input to product's meta info. It's been 2 days and I haven't succeeded yet.

My objective is to:

1. Take input from user for every item added to the cart.
2. Display that input in the order's meta info.
3. Display that input in confirmation email sent to the customer.

So far, I have copied the template file to my theme and added an input field inside a cell. I'm having trouble with the hooks, learned about hooks I will need from WooCommerce Product Gift Wrap plugin as indicated in this woocommerce issue.

Code I added to the cart.php template copied in my theme directory :

$input_url_data = '<div class="input-url"><input type="text" name="cart-url" value="" title="" class="input-text cart-url text" /></div>';

echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_add_cart_item_data', $input_url_data, $cart_item_key );

Code I added to my theme's functions.php :

add_filter( 'woocommerce_add_cart_item_data','add_cart_item_data', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_get_cart_item_from_session','get_cart_item_from_session', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_get_item_data','get_item_data', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_add_cart_item','add_cart_item', 10, 1 );
add_action( 'woocommerce_add_order_item_meta','add_order_item_meta', 10, 2 );

function add_cart_item_data( $cart_item_meta, $product_id ) {
    $input_url_key = "";
    $input_url_data['inputurl'] = $input_url_key;
    return $input_url_data;
}

function get_cart_item_from_session( $cart_item, $values ) {

if ( ! empty( $values['inputurl'] ) ) {
    $cart_item['inputurl'] = true;
}
return $cart_item;
}

function get_item_data( $item_data, $cart_item ) {

if ( ! empty( $cart_item['inputurl'] ) )
    $item_data[] = array(
    );
return $item_data;
}

function add_cart_item( $cart_item ) {
if ( ! empty( $cart_item['inputurl'] ) ) {

}
return $cart_item;
}

function add_order_item_meta( $item_id, $cart_item ) {
if ( ! empty( $cart_item['inputurl'] ) )
woocommerce_add_order_item_meta( $item_id, __( 'URL by buyer', 'custom_input_url' ), __( 'Yes', 'custom_input_url' ) );
}

Documentation about hook woocommerce_add_cart_item_data isn't very helpful and I'm stuck at this. How do I proceed?

Answer 1

There is a wordpress plugin called WC Fields Factory for the exact purpose.

You can also achieve this by using the following woocommerce hooks woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button, woocommerce_add_to_cart, woocommerce_cart_item_name,and 'woocommerce_add_order_item_meta'

like for adding text field to product page

function add_name_on_tshirt_field() {
  echo '<table class="variations" cellspacing="0">
      <tbody>
          <tr>
          <td class="label"><label for="color">Name On T-Shirt</label></td>
          <td class="value">
              <input type="text" name="name-on-tshirt" value="" />
          </td>
      </tr>                             
      </tbody>
  </table>';
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button', 'add_name_on_tshirt_field' );

For displaying custom field on cart item table use the below

function render_meta_on_cart_item( $title = null, $cart_item = null, $cart_item_key = null ) {
    if( $cart_item_key && is_cart() ) {
        echo $title. '<dl class="">
                 <dt class="">Name On T-Shirt : </dt>
                 <dd class=""><p>'. WC()->session->get( $cart_item_key.'_name_on_tshirt') .'</p></dd>           
              </dl>';
    }else {
        echo $title;
    }
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_cart_item_name', 'render_meta_on_cart_item', 1, 3 );

to make your custom meta data on you order details, do some thing like this

function tshirt_order_meta_handler( $item_id, $values, $cart_item_key ) {
    wc_add_order_item_meta( $item_id, "name_on_tshirt", WC()->session->get( $cart_item_key.'_name_on_tshirt') );    
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_add_order_item_meta', 'tshirt_order_meta_handler', 1, 3 );

for detailed implementation, i have an article about how to do this without using any plugins. http://sarkware.com/how-to-pass-custom-data-to-cart-line-item-in-woocommerce-without-using-plugins/