Different shipping methods for different categories

[tylerd213]

Hi, I have been searching around a lot and cant seem to find the answer to my question.. I have two categories of which i need to assign different shipping methods for each (Products in 1st category can be shipped with any shipping method but products in category 2 can only be picked up in store, so a forced in store pickup)

How would i go about doing this?? I read stuff about Mixed Carts, but am unsure what that is.

Thanks,
Tyler

[tylerd213]

Anybody have any ideas??

Thanks!
Tyler

[Ajeh]

You could customize the shipping modules that when a given master_categories_id is in the shopping cart then only Store Pickup storepickup can run ...

Otherwise, when nothing from that master_categories_id is in the cart then all other Shipping modules run ...

You should also consider whether you want Store Pickup storepickup to always show as an option ...

[tylerd213]

Ok, this is basically what i want to do. Unfortunately i have no idea where to begin (Im new with PHP).

But to give you some more information, i only have one other shipping option in my cart (2 total with storepickup) which is Per Item. So what i would want to do is in the Per Item shipping module include code somewhere that states if the master_categories_id is 17 (the one i want storepickup on) then disable this shipping module.

Store pickup can be shown on all other products, it just has to be the only forced option in this one category :)

Thanks for your help thus far, its so much appreciated!!

[Ajeh]

Let's say you want the Per Item item shipping module to turn off or hide when 1 or more products from categories_id 17 is in the shopping cart ...

Edit the shipping module:
/includes/modules/shipping/item.php

      // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
      if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
        if ($_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','17') > 0) {
          $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_ITEM_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
        }
      } 

This will cause the $this->enabled to evaluate as false and not show the Per Item item shipping module ...

[tylerd213]

We are close!! Thanks so much! But a couple issues:

It seems to work backwards, it enables per item shipping for the category 17 but disables it for the rest of the categories.

second in the admin panel when i click on shipping modules it states:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/content/W/o/l/Wolves17/html/cart/includes/modules/shipping/item.php on line 28



Thanks so much for your help so far! I will be donating

[motherthemother]

You could customize the shipping modules that when a given master_categories_id is in the shopping cart then only Store Pickup storepickup can run ...

Otherwise, when nothing from that master_categories_id is in the cart then all other Shipping modules run ...

You should also consider whether you want Store Pickup storepickup to always show as an option ...

Can someone help with coding the item.php file (or another area) if I want certain items to not have store pick up? I want all my items to have shipping all the time.

[cellmonsters]

I can certaintly help you on this..

Please email me at cs@cellmonsters.com

Currently I have been successful at coding the shipping options to include more than one master category.

[Ajeh]

You are looking at totally customized shipping modules to manage shipping based on these Category issues ...

[spid3r1987]

so it requires alot of customisation?