Question

I’ve created a button within the Admin theme, which is named ‘Create order for Johnsons’

Basically on this button I want to point it to the new create order screen for customerid 3 and store 2. Something like this:

$key=Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/url')->getSecretKey("sales_order_create","index"); 
echo $COUrl=Mage::helper("adminhtml")->getUrl("adminhtml/sales_order/new/",array("customer_id"=>"3","key"=>$key));

Please can anybody help me?

Answer 1

You don’t need to specify the key, getUrl does that for you when in an admin context.

echo $this->getUrl('*/sales_order_create/start', array('customer_id' => 3));

When using start like this it wipes all parameters except customer_id so a store cannot be specified. It will respect a store_id parameter if you change the URL to */sales_order_create/index but that does not start a new order so it would be problematic. To get that to work you will have to create a new controller and action for your own use and make it almost exactly like Mage_Adminhtml_Sales_Order_CreateController::startAction():

/**
 * Start order create action
 */
public function startAction()
{
    Mage::getSingleton('adminhtml/session_quote')->clear();
    $this->_redirect('*/sales_order_create', array(
        'customer_id' => $this->getRequest()->getParam('customer_id'),
        'store_id'    => $this->getRequest()->getParam('store_id')
    ));
}