Magento redirect to checkout after adding to cart

Question

I want to disable the shopping cart page. I mean that when customers add products to cart, Magento will skip the shopping cart page and redirects them to the checkout page to shorten buying process.

Is there any way to make it successful?

Please suggest me.

Answer 1

My final observer:

I've added a check for cart items because if cart cookie expires or you refresh checkout or success order page, magento displays error 500, too many redirects. If there are no items in cart you must redirect to another page like homepage.

  public function forceCheckoutRedirect($observer){

  $numberOfItems = Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getItemsCount();
  // force redirct to checkout page if cart is not empty
  if($numberOfItems > 0) {
    Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()
    ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('onepage'))
    ->sendResponse();
    exit();
  }
  else {
    Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()
    ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('/'))
    ->sendResponse();
    exit();

  }

}

Answer 2

Assume that you have using magento 1.x version

and assume that you does not want access checkout/cart/ at all time.

For this case you can use Magento Event/observer.

This is case use magento event controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_index

and from this event observer redirect to checkout/onepage/ page

  <global>
    <events>
      <controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_index>
        <observers>
          <redirect_to_checkout_from_cart>
            <type>singleton</type>
            <class>[ModuleNameSpace]_[ModuleName]_Model_Observer</class>
            <method>forceToGoCheckoutPage</method>
          </redirect_to_checkout_from_cart>
        </observers>
      </controller_action_predispatch_checkout_cart_index>    
    </events>
  </global>

Observer:

<?php
class ModuleNameSpace]_[ModuleName]_Model_Observer{
    public function forceToGoCheckoutPage($observer){
        // force redirect to the checkout page
          Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()
                ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('checkout/onepage'))
                ->sendResponse();
exit();

    }
}