WooCommerce: See What’s Inside the Cart Array (print_r)

So many times I needed to “play” with Cart contents in order to modify the default behaviour (such as removing a columns, hide the sale price to prices, hide an item, etc.).

There is a great PHP function that always helps – it’s called print_r and you can use this to “see” what’s inside the cart array, so that you can return certain information in a message for example.

A bit advanced, but as you grow your WooCommerce coding skills, you will use this a lot 🙂

WooCommerce: print Cart array

PHP Snippet: Print WooCommerce Cart Array


/**
 * @snippet       See what is inside the Cart array - WooCommerce
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @sourcecode    https://businessbloomer.com/?p=21941
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WC 2.6.14, WP 4.7.2, PHP 5.5.9
 */

add_action( 'woocommerce_before_cart', 'bbloomer_print_cart_array' );

function bbloomer_print_cart_array() {
$cart = WC()->cart->get_cart();
print_r($cart);
}

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Where to add custom code?

You should place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file and CSS at the bottom of its style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my guide "Should I Add Custom Code Via WP Editor, FTP or Code Snippets?" and my video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything went as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting.

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Rodolfo Melogli

Business Bloomer Founder

Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

4 thoughts on “WooCommerce: See What’s Inside the Cart Array (print_r)”

  1. Marco Floriano

    Thanks for this and others snippets for woocommerce Rodolf, helped a lot a new woocommerce coder to find a way through.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Excellent!

      Reply
  2. billy

    Hi Rodolfo! I read somewhere once that there’s a way to force line breaks to this array to make it easier to read, but I haven’t been able to find that snippet since – do you know it? Hope so! Oh and thanks for all that you do and share!!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Billy, thanks for your comment! YES! Try with:

      echo "<pre>";
print_r($data);
echo "</pre>";
      Reply
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