Magento2: How to add product description to shopping cart and checkout page?

Question

For shopping cart, I added the following code to

app/design/frontend/VendorName/custom/Magento_checkout/templates/cart/item/default.phtml

<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $this->helper('Magento\Catalog\Helper\Output')->productAttribute($block->getProduct(), $block->getProduct()->getDescription(), 'description') ?>

But it is not displaying the description. How to add product description to shopping cart and checkout page?

Answer 1

Please follow the below steps:

Step 1: description is an default attribute for the product hence call the same from your custom module as shown below.

/app/etc/NameSpace/ModuleName/etc/catalog_attributes.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Catalog:etc/catalog_attributes.xsd">
 <group name="quote_item">
     <attribute name="description"/>
 </group>
</config>

Step 2: Go to below path /app/design/frontend/Smartwave/porto/Magento_Checkout/templates/cart/item/default.phtml

use like this <?php echo $_item->getProduct()->getData('description');?>

Step 3: Clear cache and page cache and go to frontend & check the same.

Answer 2

Go to below path

/app/design/frontend/Smartwave/porto/Magento_Checkout/templates/cart/item/default.phtml

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();

 $productDescription = $objectManager->get('Magento\Catalog\Model\Product')->load($‌​_item->getProductId(‌​))->getDescription()‌​; 
echo $productDescription;

Answer 3

It's too easy to get product fields on the checkout cart page with the object manager

There are two ways to get details

1. Using Object Manager
2. Using the override method

Here I'm showing you a direct method from the Object manager

1. Please go to below path in your root magento 2

app/design/frontend/VendorName/custom/Magento_checkout/templates/cart/item/default.phtml

2. Using the below the line you can get the description of the product

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$productDescription = $objectManager->get('Magento\Catalog\Model\Product')->load($_item->getProductId())->getDescription();

If you want to get any field of the product than just replace with the Description in the above code.