Hey guys&girls , for some time now i have been pouring over this forum and finding all kinds of usefull tips.
There is somthing that is iluding me still.

As a regular online shopper , i wish to see my total costs of purchase before having to click to many times around a website. Larger online stores like amazon and ebay have lead the way (again) with displaying shipping costs with product costs.

For my store i wanted to display the customers "Basket" its total , and the P&P total on a seperate line.

To start out , i installed the shopping_cart header , which works perfectly at getting number of products and the total cost with a nice href link to the shopping_cart page

looking at this code for a while , i noticed that if i added a line like...

$weight = $_SESSION['cart']->show_weight();

it would also return the weight of the "basket" as a number

. now if i used table rates ? i could just write out some php for each price point in one big if statment.

but because i am using Zone Rates , i will need to get some thing a little more advanced .


Having a search around the mods and forums i found
"shipping_estimator_sidebox"
which looks to be a modified popup shipping estimator.

now this works perfectly , in every way i would want it to. however , i want to have the output of this side box apear in my header.

can anyone help with this little project ? i feel it would make an impact on all stores it was used on.

for those interested in my store or the contribs used on it there is an Acknowledgements page with links to contributors pages ( where given )