CoreShop State Machine

The CoreShop State Machine is a important core feature which allows to determinate complex workflows securely and in a most modern way. Unlike the most eCommerce Frameworks out there, CoreShop does not work with the messy and hard do extend "state/status" concept. Every order-section and of course the order itself provides its own state machine which allows us to build a super strong state workflow.

Places

In State Machine context, the well-known "Status" Property is called "Places". Every Workflow comes with a pre-defined set of Places.

Transition

To change the Place of a workflow we need to apply a transition. If the transition is valid the new place gets stored.

Callbacks

There are several events for each transition which can be also extend by every project. Example:: If all order payments has been successfully transformed to the completed place, the coreshop_order_payment workflow will automatically change to paid.

Workflows

There are seven implemented Workflows:

  • coreshop_order
  • coreshop_order_payment
  • coreshop_order_shipment
  • coreshop_order_invoice
  • coreshop_payment
  • coreshop_shipment
  • coreshop_invoice

Workflows are connected among themselves so every transition will trigger another Workflow and so on. If a transition has been dispatched, it cannot be transformed back unless it has been defined in the available transitions.

So let's start: