programatically create new cart

I'm looking into creating a new cart with php but I see that there is a session ID necessary. Where does this session come from and where is it generated?

I basically want to create a new cart for a specific user so I can put products inside (also through php) so I'm curious what you guys recommend and if you have any information on the session ID

Hi,

I don't really understand what you need, thanks to explain in more details.

If you want to create a specific cart for a customer, you can use the multicart option from our configuration, and then via the menu (in backend) Customer > Cart create a new cart for the desired user and add the desired products inside.
Then the customer can access the carts via the menu "User control panel" in frontend.

Sorry for the confusion:

I'm creating custom components for a client. When a certain parameter in that custom component changes, I want to programmatically create a new cart for a specific user.

Here's an example:
User1 orders some products, he pays and his cart is cleared. This part already happens in Hikashop. Then in my custom component I want to be able to add a certain product into that empty cart. How would I do that? Do i have to create a new cart or does the cart still exist but is simply empty? What I think is that the cart is just emptied after payment but it still exists for that user. Is that correct? If so I can just grab the cart corresponding to the user and put the product inside.

I'm trying to do all of this in PHP because it happens automatically.

Ok I will take a peek.

But I still think you might be misunderstanding me. In my scenario, for user_1 there is no cart. I want to create a new cart for that user (I have the userID) in php without the user having to do anything. Since the cart gets deleted after the order is confirmed, I have to create a new cart (there is a complicated reason why i do this). However the user is at this moment not on the site. This is all done separately in a php script. So what do I do with the session? Since there is no session for that specific user.

Ok will do!

When is that method called so I can dump the variables and see what's in them?

Awesome Thanks!

One last question, what about the session id? In the method you told me about the code is trying to get the user's session id, but the user is not invoking the method. How would I have to deal with this? Or is there something i'm overlooking?

Ah nevermind, I was looking at the wrong method. That was initCart(). My bad! Thanks for the help, I will continue to implement this. Thank you for your help and patience

Ok i implemented this but I realized there is a problem. There is no way of telling the system for which user this cart is. Now it just created a cart for me only, but my initial question was to create a cart for a specific user whose ID is known. Currently the method creates a cart for me only.

EDIT:

I analyzed the code a bit more and the user_id and its session is grabbed in initCart().

That method is called in resetCart() which is the first method called in addToCartFromFields(). That's why I was asking about the session and user_id.

awesome thanks for the help!

I noticed that addToCartFromFields doesn't return the cart or its ID. Is it stored in the class somewhere?

Hi,

The cart id is stored in the session, so you can find it with:
$app->getUserState( HIKASHOP_COMPONENT.'.cart_id', 0, 'int' );