programmatically add discount

-- HikaShop version -- : 4.4.3
-- Joomla version -- : 3.9.27
-- PHP version -- : 7.3.28
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome 90.0.4430.212

Hi,
we need to create and add "on-the-fly" one or more discounts to one or more products in cart on checkout page
i say "on-the-fly" because we need to create/add discount based on what thirdpary backend app say aboutn the product (if it deserve or not one or more discounts)

do you have any php code that can help us?
thank you

Hello,

We'll actually need more information about what you exactly want to achieve and when that piece of php code needs to be triggered.

To add a discount using php code, you'll just have to use and SQL request to add a row to the "#_hikashop_discount" table, you can manualy create a discount and then check its structure through the "#_hikashop_discount" table.

Kind regards,
Mohamed.

is there a way to achive this without directly accessing the db but instead using hikashop helpers, class etc.?
some php example code?

how can we associate a discount to a specific product by code?

we use a product and customize it on request with several custom item field, than put it to cart
it's price is altered by "amount" custom item field (from donation plugin) because we use hikashop to sell custom tickets coming from thirdparty software, i create a "dummy" product with price = 1, and than use it to add one o more "copy" of it to cart, customizing it with custom item fields and the price is altered by "amout" custom item field.

in my immagination product inside cart ($cart->cart_products[]) can be setup with a reference to a discount i create ad-hoc.
i prior create a "dummy" discount with no value or 0, and if i need it i take it, alter it's value (percentage or flat) based on what my thirdparty software say, and associate it to my product in cart

can you help me please?

thank you for your kind support!

is possibile to have multiple fee in the same cart? because we can have multiple type of discount ("five%", "family", "september-promo") and we want customers to visibily know the kind of discounts he gets!

anyway, we still prefer to use discount system because we want to add discount to product, not to entire cart, because in a cart customer can put several type of products and not every product in cart deserves a discount, and we want customers to know what product deserve a discount and what product do not deserve a discount

Hi nicolas,

Which trigger I should use if I want to add this discount after adding a product to cart, not on checkout page?

Thank you nicolas,

Seems I'm a little bit confused about how discounts and coupons are used.

What I want to do is:
After clicking the add to cart button, I want to have multiple copies of the added product with different quantities and prices.

So I created a plugin and implemented the onBeforeCartSave event to add the products, which is done successfully with correct quantities, but I can't find out how to set the prices for each product copy to be different from the product setup price.

Can this be done in the same event or it should be done in another event?

Thanks for your help.

Thank you nicolas
Worked like a charm!

I'm still willing to know more about the "additional" mechanism you mentioned earlier, so please let me know whether there is a kind of documentation or example that shows how to use it and for which use case.

Best regards