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 🙂

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);
}