Shipping Estimator problem?

[Feznizzle]

Hi,

Hope the title of this post is not too racy!

The definition of '**edited**' is to 'utter abruptly; to blurt out'. And that is exactly what my shipping estimator is doing. It is telling my visitors a shipping rate before they put in their delivery particulars.

I am only using Table Rates. But I like people putting in their country/state/zip BEFORE my estimator blurts out the shipping price. Let me see if I can attach a screenshot.



I want the visitor to put in some information BEFORE the shipping price gets blurted out. Psychologically, waiting for the customer to put in info feels more personalized and i think it will be better received.

Should I tell my website to think about baseball or a really complex Angry Birds level?

Any help will be great appreciated!

~Mike

[Ajeh]

On the file:
/includes/templates/templates_default/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php

using your templates and overrides ...

You could try surrounding the FOR loop with an IF such as:

if ((isset($_POST['zip_code']) && isset($_POST['zone_id'])) || $_SESSION['customer_id']) {
      for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($quotes); $i<$n; $i++) {

but you need to test that well ...

Also, you might want to make it more clear to hit Update for current shipping quotes, as not hitting the update will break this ...

NOTE: add the closing IF bracket below the closing FOR bracket ...

NOTE: even one data is added for the address, this requires the UPDATE to be hit on guests ...

If you want it to work on the remembered settings for guests not logged in, you could try using:

if (($zip_code && $state_zone_id) || $_SESSION['customer_id']) {
      for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($quotes); $i<$n; $i++) {

[Kim]

Moderator's note: Title of this thread has been edited because we do not want search engines and others targeting this site with cures for that particular problem.

[Feznizzle]

Yahoo Ajeh!

Thank you for that very thoughtful answer, I wish I had seen it days ago. I'm just catching it at the end of the day on a Friday.

I will give your suggestions a go on Monday and post the results. Thanks again, I really do appreciate you looking into this!

+++

Kim,

Sorry about that! I was in a bit of a whacky mood. I recognized that the description was off color and I came back later but was unable to figure out how to edit the comment myself.

Sorry!