Re: New Royal Mail Version 2.3.3
The next version is ready, one thing I forgot to put in the notes, is that in Admin the version of each module is now displayed. Currently available from my website until ZC puts it in their download section.
http://########################.co.uk/versions/b...ail_v2.3.3.zip
version 2.3.3
29/03/2009 :
Major change - all modules when installed are now "disabled" by default. The majority of "shop owners" are installing on live sites and so if they install a module it would appear on a customer's shopping trolley and checkout before the owner had a chance to check the figures or that the handling fees are correct.
New Modules - ukcourier, this is a very basic module for shop owners that want a basic courier module without going to the trouble of setting up zones and placing the Scottish Higlands in a separate pricing zone.
specialdeliverysat - This is BETA CODE, this module will appear to the customer after the post office has shut on a Thursday through to when it closes on a Friday, giving the option of Saturday Special Delivery, but it does rely on the server having the correct time and being in the UK, in the next release this will be corrected.
Module Update - Standard Parcels now has a minimum weight setting. THe royal mail calculates the price in a band from 0 to 2Kg, whereas some shop owners may prefer to send items by 1st Class up to a kilo and then offer standard parcels, this new setting enables this scenario and will be migrated across all modules.
Removals - the sql that removed all the royal mail details from the database adn the sql for when peopl upbraded version that were 2~3 years old has been removed from the optional section after a newbie ran it on his live site by mistake and damaged his installation.
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
Very nice but I think the rOYAL MAIL MODULE NEED THE parcelforce ADDONS
MANY PARCEL OF ROYAL MAIL USE PARCELFORCE
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
a) the UKZR can handle parcelforce and the splitting of the country into zones for the scottish highlands and has been included in the zip file for 3 years, it can also handle any other courier.
b) shouting a demand is not appreciated.
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
Quote:
Originally Posted by
philip_clarke
okay you are asking something a little tricky because the zen-car code is convoluted as it deals with free shipping options, whether the person is logged on, whether they are a guest. For the guest on zencart 1.3.8 in includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
Code:
<!--
<label class="inputLabel" for="country">ENTRY COUNTRY<?php echo ENTRY_COUNTRY; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_get_country_list('zone_country_id', $selected_country, 'id="country" onchange="update_zone(this.form);"'); ?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<label class="inputLabel" for="stateZone" id="zoneLabel"><?php echo ENTRY_STATE; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_pull_down_menu('zone_id', zen_prepare_country_zones_pull_down($selected_country), $state_zone_id, 'id="stateZone"');?>
<br class="clearBoth" id="stBreak" />
<label class="inputLabel" for="state" id="stateLabel"><?php echo $state_field_label; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('state', $selectedState, zen_set_field_length(TABLE_ADDRESS_BOOK, 'entry_state', '40') . ' id="state"') .'&
nbsp;<span class="alert" id="stText"> </span>'; ?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<?php
if(CART_SHIPPING_METHOD_ZIP_REQUIRED == "true"){
?>
<label class="inputLabel"><?php echo ENTRY_POST_CODE; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('zip_code', $zip_code, 'size="7"'); ?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<?php
}
?>
<div class="buttonRow forward"><?php echo zen_image_submit(BUTTON_IMAGE_UPDATE, BUTTON_UPDATE_ALT); ?></div>
-->
works and I would leave it at that, because just commenting that out will set the default country to UK (either because the shipping calculator bases it's default country on store location or define('PULL_DOWN_DEFAULT', 'United Kingdom'); that you mentioned. Then you still have the option of a user changing around delivery addresses.
So that's just adding <!-- and --> in the correct places.
Hi Phillip,
I can't get that to work. adding <!-- and --> as shown doesn't show any shipping costs at all. I'm getting confused though maybe, should I be changing:
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
or
includes/templates/YOUR_OVERRIDE_NAME/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
I have it slecting UK now but the state box is still showing and the post code is too. I also have to refresh the window to make the shipping show up in the shopping cart.
Thank you
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
Quote:
Originally Posted by
suekay
Hi Phillip,
I can't get that to work. adding <!-- and --> as shown doesn't show any shipping costs at all. I'm getting confused though maybe, should I be changing:
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
or
includes/templates/YOUR_OVERRIDE_NAME/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
I have it slecting UK now but the state box is still showing and the post code is too. I also have to refresh the window to make the shipping show up in the shopping cart.
Thank you
Hi Phillip (again)
I have it working now all apart from having to refresh my browser to see the shipping costs. Do you know why that is happening? Once I have refreshed it once then I delete my cart contents and add another product the shipping costs are shown and I don't have to refresh. Iswitched between templates back to classis and it showed up fine, so seems like a problem with Apple zen template.
Thank you
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
Quote:
Originally Posted by
suekay
Hi Phillip,
I can't get that to work. adding <!-- and --> as shown doesn't show any shipping costs at all. I'm getting confused though maybe, should I be changing:
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
or
includes/templates/YOUR_OVERRIDE_NAME/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
I have it slecting UK now but the state box is still showing and the post code is too. I also have to refresh the window to make the shipping show up in the shopping cart.
Thank you
It is a little difficult for me to say as I'm having to use my imagination to guess where you are. The default is
includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php
and if changing that results in big mess, then that's the correct page to be changing.
What I suggest is this, just write <h1>HELLO</h1> in the page until you reach just before the bit you want to remove, then write GOODBYE in the page until you get to the end of the section, then surround the hello and goodbye with <!-- and -->. That's pretty much how I located the areas to put the comments.
You are facing some issues with the template though, as the thing changes if you are logged in as a user, or are a guest. As a guest you get presented with the whole postcode, country caboodle but when you are logged in, it calculates things from the delivery addresses saved under that user account, and you really don't want to be removing that as you'll cripple your site.
Actually you could skip the process entirely by just disabling the shipping estimator by going to Admin > configuration > Shipping/ Packaging >Shipping Estimator Display Settings for Shopping Cart and just turning the whole thing off, which might be a better use of your time.
No offence intended but it'd be better to switch it off and get the site running than waste too much time, or produce half garbled output.
Philip.
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
Quote:
Originally Posted by
suekay
Hi Phillip (again)
I have it working now all apart from having to refresh my browser to see the shipping costs. Do you know why that is happening? Once I have refreshed it once then I delete my cart contents and add another product the shipping costs are shown and I don't have to refresh. Iswitched between templates back to classis and it showed up fine, so seems like a problem with Apple zen template.
Thank you
If I recall correctly there is some javascript in the original form that reloads the page if the country is switched, off the top of my head, I can't imagine what you are describing as it sounds correct, as you are describing "add a product to the cart and the shipping costs are shown" rather than I do XYZ and then nothing is shown until I do a refresh. (In which case I am 99% sure that it's a session cookie thing where a country is set the first time the page is visited and then reloads with the correct details on the second time when the browser presents the session).
Sorry I seek clarity.
Re: New Royal Mail Modules
I'll pm you with my site link and you'll see it happen
Thank you
Royal Mail Modules - Road Map
Here is a rough idea of the progression of the modules.
In Standard Parcels we have a new minimum weight limit for the service, this will be migrated across the other modules, the upper weight limit is defined by the Royal Mail rates, and can be modified by removing the prices:higher weights so by having a min weight we can now say first class stops at 2 Kgs, from 2 Kgs upwards use standard parcels.
Tropheus refreshed my memory for an idea to maximise sales abroad. Zen cart is set up to have a max weight limit that is the same across all modules, normally 50 Kgs, any order more than that gets split into boxes. This creates a problem with the royal mail since the airmail services are limited to 2 Kgs, but other services are limited to 6Kgs. The problem occurs if someone wants to process a 3 Kg shopping cart, they would be allowed to buy in the UK but not abroad because of the airmail service stopping at 2Kg. To get around this, one would have to set the zencat weight limit for the entire website to 2Kg's and then ZC would quote for 2 x 1.5 Kilo packages. The issue that then turns up is that the UK based customer ordering a 3Kg parcel also gets their order split down when they could be getting a cheaper overall rate using the 3Kg rate in standard parcels or first class etc...
What has been discussed and tested is that the modules will be fixed to ignore the Zencart maximum shipping weight, if they have a rate in them that is heavier. Then the ZC weight is set to 2Kgs. This will have the effect of splitting down a 3Kg parcel for overseas buyers into 2 boxes but leaving the 3Kg rate for UK services.
This override has to be done for all UK services (approx 18 modules) but should boost international sales as the customers will no longer be limited by shipping options.
Under the hood the structure of the modules is changing. Each module uses constants like MODULE_SHIPPING_RMSTDPARCELS_MINWEIGHT and this will be changing to more complex looking code. The complex looking code will take the module name and put it in the middle of the constant. When this has been entirely migrated it will signify the renaming of the modules to version 3.0. The reason for this complex change is that it makes building more modules simpler. Currently to build a new module one only has to copy across two files to a new filename, BUT then one has to do a global case sensitive serach and replace to change every constant and it's easy to make a mistake, whereas the complex looking code that makes the constants from the module name, means that the new code would only need to have three changes made to one file to build a new module rather than 28~30 changes.
The other advantage of the complex looking code is that if a new function is added like adding a minimum weight instead of taking the code from one module and pasting it to another then having to do a replace on the constants, the constants will be self-creating and so the code will be easier to swap between modules if any more feature requests are made.
When version 3.0 is ready, this thread will close and a new one will be opened because it is far too long for the new users to read through as it dates back 3 years and things have changed quite a bit.
Philip
Re: New Royal Mail Version 2.3.3
[QUOTE=philip_clarke;707583]
version 2.3.3
29/03/2009 :
specialdeliverysat - This is BETA CODE, this module will appear to the customer after the post office has shut on a Thursday through to when it closes on a Friday, giving the option of Saturday Special Delivery, but it does rely on the server having the correct time and being in the UK, in the next release this will be corrected.
Thank you very Philip for this change. However I think that you need to let people be able to set their own times if possible.
For example in my case. The post office does shut at 17:30
However the post office will not allow any Special Delivery to be booked in after 17:00 as there is paperwork to be completed by p.o. Post van arrives at 17:05, collects mail and leaves at 17:20
If someone orders a special delivery you need time to wrap and take to post office. Also the clock on my website as in the last few days has become 5 hours behind. Only I think there is a module you can download to adjust the clock, but it wouldnt matter at all if you could set your own start and stop time in your software.
Module Update - Standard Parcels now has a minimum weight setting. THe royal mail calculates the price in a band from 0 to 2Kg, whereas some shop owners may prefer to send items by 1st Class up to a kilo and then offer standard parcels, this new setting enables this scenario and will be migrated across all modules.
Thank you so very much !
:D
