Basket area; $oxcmp_basket object, how does it produce its values?

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Hello Team,

$oxcmp_basket, a Smarty variable to be found in a template, basketcontents.tpl.
I studied some code, my assumption was $oxcmp_basket its values are taken from session. This variable, it plays a major role in displaying prices of items and basket price calculation.

My question is $oxcmp_basket, how does it produce or obtain its values?

Thank you.

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choose your shopversion to get the docu about source code:

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Components work like this: the return value of “render” method is passed to smarty with the name of the component. In this case:
Component: oxcmp_basket.php, its render method:


    public function render()
    {
        // recalculating
        if ( $oBasket = $this->getSession()->getBasket() ) {
            $oBasket->calculateBasket( false );
        }

        parent::render();

        return $oBasket;
    }

If you follow this path in the end $oBasket is an oxbasket object. So to answer your question $oxcmp_basket is an instance of oxbasket and it is stored in session.

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Thank you Ray for the link of the OXID Docu, it’s very useful.

Frank, thank you so much for your explanation about the components.
At first i was’t sure how the components work, e.g. the class name oxcmp_basket and the Smarty variable $oxcmp_basket which locates in a template, I was wondering whether they refer to each other or not. so now i know the meaning of it, yay!.