woocommerce/docs/extension-development/class-reference.md

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Classes in WooCommerce

List of Classes in WooCommerce

For a list of Classes in WooCommerce, please see the WooCommerce Code Reference.

Common Classes

WooCommerce

The main class is woocommerce which is available globally via the $woocommerce variable. This handles the main functions of WooCommerce and init's other classes, stores site-wide variables, and handles error/success messages. The woocommerce class initializes the following classes when constructed:

• WC_Query - stored in $woocommerce->query
• WC_Customer - stored in $woocommerce->customer
• WC_Shipping - stored in $woocommerce->shipping
• WC_Payment_Gateways - stored in $woocommerce->payment_gateways
• WC_Countries - stored in $woocommerce->countries

Other classes are auto-loaded on demand.

View the WooCommerce Class Code Reference for a full list of methods contained in this class.

WC_Product

WooCommerce has several product classes responsible for loading and outputting product data. This can be loaded through PHP using:

$product = wc_get_product( $post->ID );

In the loop this is not always necessary since calling the_post() will automatically populate the global $product variable if the post is a product.

View the WC_Product Code Reference for a full list of methods contained in this class.

WC_Customer

The customer class allows you to get data about the current customer, for example:

global $woocommerce;
$customer_country = $woocommerce->customer->get_country();

View the WC_Customer Code Reference for a full list of methods contained in this class.

WC_Cart

The cart class loads and stores the users cart data in a session. For example, to get the cart subtotal you could use:

global $woocommerce;
$cart_subtotal = $woocommerce->cart->get_cart_subtotal();

View the WC_Cart Code Reference for a full list of methods contained in this class.