Shipping/Lead Time

[jdw1979]

What I'm trying to do is indicate to the customer how long the lead time will be (not necessarily the delivery date, but when it'll actually leave our facility here).

I've attached a pic of what I'd like to see (not red though, I did that so it'd be easy to see what I'm trying to make happen here).

What would I have to do to achieve this?

Thanks again, in advance.

[Absolute]

The easiest way is to do it in days, and have an extra field in the database table "products". Set it up as an integer, and then call this value on the store side, and place it within a sprintf(TEXT_DELIVERY_TIME, $day_to_despatch) statement. This was you can do loads of things with it in the future if you want, such as estimating despatch times, and delivery dates depending on the products in the order.

Absolute

[jdw1979]

Okay, so I did this in a rather ghetto way. Please let me know if this is going to cause problems. Rather than adding stuff in the database, I changed the "product_weight" data format from "FLOAT" to "VARCHAR" and 11 characters. I then use Easy Populate's mechanism to upload data, but in the v_product_weight column I put my lead time information (Stock, Non-Stock, etc...). I then editing a couple of lines in various define(TEXT_PRODUCT_WEIGHT) to display the words "Lead Time" in lieu of "Weight." I also changed all the instances of TEXT_PRODUCT_WEIGHT_UNIT from 'lbs' to nothing.

I know that Zen Cart does calculations with the weights you have in order to guess at shipping. The company for which I work has no need of this functionality as we have a different mechanism in place for determining shipping and letting the customer know of their shipping costs. So, other than that, is what I've done with changing the data that is displayed from being "weight-affiliated," for lack of a better word, to being "lead-time affiliated?" I really hope I didn't screw anything up.

[jdw1979]

Just an update. My ghetto methodology paid off. It has worked quite well, and hasn't broken anything in the couple of weeks that it has been implemented. Whoo-hoo!