Shipping Rates in Cart [support thread]

[Steven300]

This is the support thread for the Shipping Rates in Cart contribution.

There are times when the shipping estimator is just plain overkill. For example, you only ship to one country and you use the flat-rate shipping module. Instead of confusing customers and letting them needlessly complete the estimator, install this mod which will display the order's shipping costs inside the customer's shopping cart, thereby rendering the estimator redundant. All associated costs will be shown clearly, resulting in a simpler, easier and quicker checkout experience.

3 new files and 1 to override.

Screenshot included.

This mod can be found in the Downloads section:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=1300

[Steven300]

Anyone using v1.0 will need to upgrade to v1.1 in order to correct a bug with the order total when switching currencies. v1.1 also has a new feature to optionally show the currency code in the shopping cart. For reasons unknown, despite now waiting 14 days and opening a related thread a few days ago which went unanswered, the devs have yet to approve the new version. I apologize on their behalf for this. If you would like to download the new version, please contact the administrator of the mods section, DrByte.

[msatkn]

Hi Steve300,
After installing a few mods recently including the Shipping Rates in Cart the notice of combining cart contents has developed a mulfunction. I have tried changing the options in Admin/Configuration/Stock/Show Notice of Combining Shopping Cart on Login
but it had no effect at all. Shopping cart contents from the previous session are added without any notice.

I was just wandering whether the cause of this malfunction has got something to do with the Shipping Rate in Cart mod. Could you please check this out so that I can eliminate this mod?

Thanks.

[Steven300]

Hi I just tested this and I received the notice of combining cart contents as expected.

[msatkn]

Thanks. I shall check the other mods I installed.

[Steven300]

Okay, good luck with that msatkn.

As an aside, the latest version is now available for download.

[iaing]

Hi Steve 300,

first off I'm new to Zencart, so huge thanks to everyone involved, it seems great.

I downloaded v1.5 never having used an earlier version. So far SRiC seems to work fine, only little glitch is in the shopping cart - the £ symbol for total appears as a ? in a diamond - the Sub Total and Shipping ones display correctly.

I've tracked it down to line 243 of tpl_shopping_cart_default.php - $currency_symbol - but don't know enough php to know if there is an error in that code or if I just haven't set something correctly elsewhere.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Iain

[palagio]

Hi Steve 300

I just have a question about your mod, hope you can help.

We have your mod uploaded to one of our sites www.minijumbos.co.uk and it works fine, we now want to install it to another store. However on this other store www.clicknorder.co.uk we already have another mod installed 'exc inc vat'
This mod shows the products with prices exc vat and inc vat.
When I went to install your 'shipping rates in cart' and I went to merge the file
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_shopping_cart_default.php

There is some coding in this file which relates to the 'exc inc vat' mod
This code you state to delete in your 'Read me' file so I am unsure how to proceed and wondering whether your mod will not work alongside the 'inc exc vat' mod
This is the code in my current file
<div id="cartSubTotal">
<?php
$products = $_SESSION['cart']->get_products();
$cartShowTotalIncTax=0;
$cartShowTotalExTax=0;
foreach($products as $product)
{
$cartShowTotalIncTax+=(zen_round($product['final_price'], $currencies->currencies[DEFAULT_CURRENCY]['decimal_places']) + zen_calculate_tax($product['final_price'], zen_get_tax_rate($product['tax_class_id'])))*$product['quantity'];
$cartShowTotalExTax+=(zen_round($product['final_price'], $currencies->currencies[DEFAULT_CURRENCY]['decimal_places']))*$product['quantity'];
}

echo SUB_TITLE_SUB_TOTAL.'&nbsp;'.set_inc_ex_display($cartShowTotalExTax,$cartShowTot alIncTax);
?>
</div>
<br class="clearBoth" />

Alternatively you stated that if the file exists in overide then delete this code:
if ($_SESSION['cart']->count_contents() > 0) {
$content .= '<hr />';
$content .= '<div class="cartBoxTotal">' . $currencies->format($_SESSION['cart']->show_total()) . '</div>';
$content .= '<br class="clearBoth" />';
}
But this code doesn't exist in my file instead the code here reads:

if ($_SESSION['cart']->count_contents() > 0) {
?>
<div class="forward"><?php echo TEXT_VISITORS_CART; ?></div>
<?php
}
?>

<h1 id="cartDefaultHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></h1>

<?php if ($messageStack->size('shopping_cart') > 0) echo $messageStack->output('shopping_cart'); ?>

<?php echo zen_draw_form('cart_quantity', zen_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART, 'action=update_product')); ?>
<div id="cartInstructionsDisplay" class="content"><?php echo TEXT_INFORMATION; ?></div>

<?php if (!empty($totalsDisplay)) { ?>
<div class="cartTotalsDisplay important"><?php echo $totalsDisplay; ?></div>
<br class="clearBoth" />

Sorry my coding knowledge is little limited, hope you can help as to what i need to do to use both mods together and what i need to change the code to
Thanks in advance

[manage-it]

Hi all,

I am running the shop in euro with decimal as , and thousand as .
The total shows a 10 times to high amount 4056,00 instead of 40,56.
When I change the decimal and thousand symbols then it works fine, but this is not how amounts are shown in the Netherlands.

How can I fix the $sric_total?