Creating New Zones

[JRayfield]

What do you mean by 'filter'?

John

[Ajeh]

Setting a Zone is like setting a filter of who can use the module ...

[JRayfield]

Ok. I understand.

Table Rate 1 is set for Colorado (with tax)
Table Rate 2 is set for United States (Continental, less Colorado)
Table Rate 3 is set for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, APO, FPO
Table Rate 4 is set for Canada
Table Rate 5 is set for All Countries (less Canada and U.S.)

Table Rates 1,2,3, and 4 are 'yellow', but Table Rate 5 is 'green'.

Shouldn't Table Rate 5 also be 'yellow', since a Zone is set for that Table?

John

[Ajeh]

hmmm ... one would think ...

But I didn't write your shipping modules so I am not sure if there are other issues here ...

Does your Table Rate 5 work?

[JRayfield]

I don't know if any of them actually work, yet. I found part of the code the download section of this site, but I think all it is, is just clones of the original Table Rate files and I'm not sure that they're quite up-to-date with the latest version of Zen-Cart. So I think I'm going to delete them and 'do it myself'.

If I understand correctly, I should just be able to 'clone' the the /includes/languages/English/modules/shipping/table.php file and the /includes/modules/shipping/table.php file, naming them something like table1.php, table2.php, etc., and making similar changes to all references of 'table' in each file (for example, this line "$this->title = MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE_TEXT_TITLE;" in table.php would become "$this->title = MODULE_SHIPPING_TABLE2_TEXT_TITLE;" in table2.php.

At least, that's what the code that I used has done. Does this sound like it's the correct way to set up multiple Table Rate shipping modules?

John

[Ajeh]

Look in the Free Software Add Ons for:
Zone Table

And there is one called something like ZoneTables that lets you define your Zones and then when you Install the shipping module, it creates as many table settings as you have Zones defined ...

Are you just wanting 1 shipping module per zone?

[JRayfield]

I need 5 Zones. Zones 1 through 4 will use Table Rates (a different 'set' of rates for each Zone). Zone 5 will us USPS.

I've looked at ZoneTables. It looks like it would work fine for the first 4 Zones, but I don't want Table Rate for Zone 5. I guess I could (maybe) set up Zone 5 in ZoneTables so that it's the same as the setttings for Zone 4. I don't know what that would do, but I guess it's worth a try.

If simply duplicating the Table Rate files with appropriate 'name' changes in the files, as I mentioned in my previous post, will work, then that is very simple, as I can create as many Table Rates as I need.

John