Special Shipping for special items. how?

[Nima]

I have USPS and UPS calculators setup on our website for shipping. However i have a smaller problem.

We ship our large sized items by freight. So for a number of our products we charge a flat rate of $139.00 for freight. How can I implement that into ZenCart so that when someone places an order that includes those large items automatically make the shipping cost $139.00?

Thank you

[Ajeh]

What indicates that the large products are large and need freight shipping?

What happens when you have 2 or more of the freight products in the cart?

[Nima]

i want to be able to mark those products that are "freight only"

If two products (that are freight size) are bought together the price would still be the same $139.00 for both of them.

thanks for your help

[Ajeh]

You are going to need some type of test for these Freight Products in the products table ...

This could be done with a new field and then that can be used to test if 1 or more are in the cart ... if so, then the shipping modules can be enabled/disabled using the $this->enabled by setting it to true or false in your shipping modules ...

There is a function in the shopping_cart.php class that can be used to test for what is in the cart based on a field in products table:

  /**
   * Method to calculate the number of items in a cart based on an abitrary property
   *
   * $check_what is the fieldname example: 'products_is_free'
   * $check_value is the value being tested for - default is 1
   * Syntax: $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_free','1');
   *
   * @param string product field to check
   * @param mixed value to check for
   * @return integer number of items matching restraint
   */
  function in_cart_check($check_what, $check_value='1') {

[Nima]

hey Linda,

would you be willing to do this for me (as paid work ofcourse)?

THank you