Question

I’m making Magento event observer, but Magento site doesn’t have very good documentation how events work or I jsut haven’t found those documents. How can I get customer details in event checkout_cart_product_add_after?

Answer 1

You can use the following code to get the current customers information:

$customer_session = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session');

If you want to know which methods you can then invoke on the object, you can use the

var_dump(get_class_methods($customer_session));

Example getting the name of the customer:

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getName());

PS: Always make sure you check whether the customer is logged in:

if(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()){
  // Do stuff
}