UK Shipping by Postcode

[cjsmiff]

Just wanted to thank the developer Mike for recoding the module to work with my configuration - so thank you Mike!


Claire

[barendfaber]

Hi,

I hope you can help me. I am working on www.thaigardennewbarnet.co.uk. The customer only delivers to a few post codes within London. I have set my zones as just 1, and in Zen Cart this is what is in my module:

Enable PostCode Method
True

Calculation Method
Price

Tax Class
--none--

Tax Basis
Shipping

Sort Order
1




Zone 1 Post Codes
EN1,EN2,EN4,EN5,EN6,N3,N11,N12,N13,N21,NW7,WD6

Zone 1 Shipping Table
1000:0.00

Zone 1 Handling Fee
0

However, when I try to place an order with postcode SE18 6JH, it does not give any error messages that the shop does not deliver to that post code. What have I done wrong here?

[jelly8ean]

Hi Zenned,

Your UKPost module is really great. Would you consider adding this coding to the module download? I only ask because I've been troubled with why this wasn't working all day and close to removing it completely, until I found this. I'm sure others would appreciate it too.

Many thanks

Buyers are unlikely to fall foul of the 'PA22 problem' if they enter a valid and complete UK postcode in the shipping estimator or in the checkout.

The module is designed to estimate or apply shipping costs in the checkout based on the buyer entering a complete UK 5 or 6 digit postcode.

Your 'solution' will continue to cause incorrect shipping values to be returned in response to partial postcodes being entered.

If you want to create a partial 'idiot' trap in the module then.. UK postcodes are either 5 or 6 digits long, so you could do a test on the string to see if it's less than 5 characters, and return an error message if it is.

To do that...
if you open /includes/modules/shipping/ukpost.php

Insert the line
if ($len <= 4) {$error2 = true;} after $len = strlen($pcode); (around line 115)

Then add the line
if ($error2 == true) $this->quotes['error'] = MODULE_SHIPPING_UKPOST_INVALID_POSTCODE; After the line if ($error == true) $this->quotes['error'] = MODULE_SHIPPING_UKPOST_INVALID_CODE;

Then open /includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/ukpost.php

Add the line
define('MODULE_SHIPPING_UKPOST_INVALID_POSTCODE', 'Invalid Postcode Entered');