How to Add Product to Cart Programmatically in Magento 2?

The product page is the most important aspects of any ecommerce store as it contains all the details about the products.

However, if the appearance of your product page is not up to the mark, you can lose a lot of sales. An attractive front end of your store can make your customers stay and can help in boosting sales. The look of add to cart button also plays a vital role in making the product page look attractive.

Magento 2 is one of the most used ecommerce platforms, so in this guide I am going to show you how to customize Add to cart button in Magento 2. You also can custom Add to Cart button to other types by Call for Price extension

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I will implement the procedure using a custom module. So let’s start by creating a custom module:

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Configuration and Registration of Module

Create module.xml in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/etc:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<configxmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
	<module name="Magenticians_Mymodule" setup_version="1.0.0"></module>
</config>

Create registration.php in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule:

<?php
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
   \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
   'Magenticians_Mymodule',
   __DIR__
);

Copy addtocart.phtml File

Copy addtocart.phtml file from vendor/magento/module-catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/view paste this file in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/view/frontend/templates/catalog/product/view.

Now create catalog_product_view.xml file in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/view/frontend/layout and add this code in the file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
  <head>
        <csssrc="Magenticians_Mymodule::css/colorcart.css"/>
   </head>

   <body>
       <referenceBlock name="product.info.addtocart">
           <action method="setTemplate">
               <argument name="template" xsi:type="string">Magenticians_Mymodule::catalog/product/view/addtocart.phtml</argument>
           </action>
       </referenceBlock>
   </body>
</page>

I have added colorcart.css file which I will use to customize add to cart button.

Edit addtocart.phtml

Now open addtocart.phtml file by going to app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/view/frontend/templates/catalog/product/view and add css class newcolor in the button tag:

<?php
/**
* Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
* See COPYING.txt for license details.
*/

// @codingStandardsIgnoreFile

/** @var $block \Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\View */
?>
<?php $_product = $block->getProduct(); ?>
<?php $buttonTitle = __('Add to Cart'); ?>
<?php if ($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
<div class="box-tocart">
   <div class="fieldset">
       <?php if ($block->shouldRenderQuantity()): ?>
       <div class="field qty">
           <label class="label" for="qty"><span><?= /* @escapeNotVerified */ __('Qty') ?></span></label>
           <div class="control">
               <input type="number"
                      name="qty"
                      id="qty"
                      value="<?= /* @escapeNotVerified */ $block->getProductDefaultQty() * 1 ?>"
                      title="<?= /* @escapeNotVerified */ __('Qty') ?>"
                      class="input-text qty"
                      data-validate="<?= $block->escapeHtml(json_encode($block->getQuantityValidators())) ?>"
                      />
           </div>
       </div>
       <?phpendif; ?>
       <div class="actions">
           <button type="submit"
                   title="<?= /* @escapeNotVerified */ $buttonTitle ?>"
                   class="action primary tocartnewcolor"
                   id="product-addtocart-button">
               <span><?= /* @escapeNotVerified */ $buttonTitle ?></span>
           </button>
           <?= $block->getChildHtml('', true) ?>
       </div>
   </div>
</div>
<?phpendif; ?>
<?php if ($block->isRedirectToCartEnabled()) : ?>
<script type="text/x-magento-init">
   {
       "#product_addtocart_form": {
           "Magento_Catalog/product/view/validation": {
               "radioCheckboxClosest": ".nested"
           }
       }
   }
</script>
<?php else : ?>
<script type="text/x-magento-init">
   {
       "#product_addtocart_form": {
           "Magento_Catalog/js/validate-product": {}
       }
   }
</script>
<?phpendif; ?>

Create CSS file

Now create a css file colorcart.css in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/view/frontend/web/css and add the following code in it:

.newcolor
{
   background: #29487d !important;
   box-shadow: 1px 5px 5px 1px rgba(66, 103, 178, 0.51);
   font-size: 23px !important;
   font-weight: bold !important;
   border-radius: 10px;
   height: 60px;
   font-family: cursive !important;
}

Now go to your Magento 2 root directory through SSH terminal and run these commands:

php bin/magentomodule:enableMagenticians_Mymodule
php bin/magentosetup:upgrade
php bin/magentosetup:di:compile
php bin/magentosetup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magentocache:clean
php bin/magentocache:flush

Launch the product’s front page and you will see the new design applied to the add to cart button:

new design applied to the add to cart button

Wrapping Up

I have demonstrated just one example, but you can design your Add to cart button according to your intention. With the help of this guide, I believe that you can now customize Add to cart button in Magento 2. If you want to discuss something related to this tutorial, just leave a message in the comment box below and I will get back to you.

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Sam is the CEO & co-founder of Mageplaza, a company established to support Magento merchants with different powerful tools and resources. Sam Nguyen is also the CEO & founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore – aiming to support more than a million online businesses to grow and develop.

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