How to display shipping weight in admin order detail page?

**penner** · 5 Apr 2011, 10:29 PM

Hello,

I am running 1.3.8a patched and am trying to find a way to display the shipping weight for an order in the details page in admin

Unless I know the weight of the items I have to re-create the users shopping cart so I can figure out what shipping weight to enter to my shipping carrier, surprisingly this basic information isn't available in the admin

I added a 'shipping_total_weight" field to the orders table as per http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92657 but am unable to get it to show the value in admin/orders.php. I confirmed when new orders are created that the field is correctly propogated with the weight

Now my PHP knowledge is limited and I have seen this question raised a few times with no answers in my searches, does anyone have a solution?

Thank you!

**penner** · 6 Apr 2011, 12:27 AM

Figured it out here it is for anyone else looking to do something similar:

First two steps from http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92657:

1. ...to add the total shipping weight (without the tare corrections, i.e. small to medium package 10:1) to the import you will need to run this command from either the mysql command line or the sql patches:

**** NOTE ****
BE SURE TO CHANGE "prefix" IN THE FOLLOWING COMMAND TO WHATEVER YOUR TABLE PREFIX IS
*************

Code:

alter table prefix_orders add shipping_weight_total decimal(14,5);

(in my case I did not enter a prefix with the underscore as it automatically added it for me in sql patches)

2. Then edit your /includes/classes/order.php on line 613 where it reads:

Code:

'ip_address' => $_SESSION['customers_ip_address'] . ' - ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
);

replace with:

Code:

'ip_address' => $_SESSION['customers_ip_address'] . ' - ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
'shipping_weight_total' => $_SESSION['cart']->weight
);

3. Finally around line 323 in admin/orders.php find:

Code:

              <tr>
                <td class="main"><strong><?php echo TEXT_INFO_IP_ADDRESS; ?></strong></td>
                <td class="main"><?php echo $order->info['ip_address']; ?></td>
              </tr>

and replace with:

Code:

              <tr>
                <td class="main"><strong><?php echo TEXT_INFO_IP_ADDRESS; ?></strong></td>
                <td class="main"><?php echo $order->info['ip_address']; ?></td>
              </tr>
<?php

        $ship_wght = $db->Execute("select shipping_weight_total from " . TABLE_ORDERS . " where orders_id = '" . (int)$oID . "'");

?>
              <tr>
                <td class="main"><br /><strong>Shipping Weight:</strong></td>
                <td class="main"><br /><?php echo round($ship_wght->fields['shipping_weight_total'], 2); ?> lbs</td>
              </tr>

I rounded to two decimal points you could do that or probably change 5 in 14,5 to the number of decimal points.

New orders will list the shipment weight on the admin order details page - you could put this in other places but the location suits me

Probably better ways of doing it but in the absence of this feature it works great for me now