Zipcode Cotumization Shipping problem

[ecom2]

Hi, I'm new here, I know very little sql but have some experience with extended php/html zencart costumization, my problem is has follows,

I have a small store in Portugal, in Portugal you have 7 digit zipcodes that go from 0000 001 to 1000 000, the problem is that from 9000 000 to 10000 000 its not mainland, but shore islands, these have a higher shipping cost, and also, can only be shipped to if payment is done trough paypal/ bank wire, I cannot ship to this islands with cash on delevery.

What I wanted to do is modify checkout_payment and checkout_shipping, so that it retrieves the zipcode of the shipping adress, and checks it against some kind of control system, so that when someone wants an order to be shipped to this islands, they have to pay more 15€ and pay them upfront by paypal or wire trasnfer, the ideia is to hide the flat rate shipping option, provide the higher fee shipping cost option, and hide the cash on delevery option,

I don't think, from my knowladge, that this would be to hard to do, can you help me out with the code ? How do I retrieve the zipcode into a variable ? also, any ideias on how to tackle this ? some demo code ? Would be very thankfull for your help and would help convert this into a contribution,

Cheers
Best Regards

[ecom2]

no one ?

[rstevenson]

It's been a while since I set up such things, but I believe you can do what you need to do using the Zones feature. In admin, look under Locations/taxes. You may have to set the island groups, i.e., Azores, as individual countries. But maybe not; you should be able to set them as zones. Do you have The Book? It has a good section on setting up this sort of thing. Also, there's a section of this forum devoted to shipping and payment issues. Lots of info there.

Rob