Shipping Estimator Sidebox compatibility?

[Athens Collectibles]

Hi everyone,

I have discovered the very useful Shipping Estimator Sidebox written by Ravi Gulhane and updated recently by swguy. I installed it on a test environment (not on the live site) for testing but noticed that it doesn't cope with version 1.5.0 of Zen Cart. I wonder whether any of the developers is around to help. The issues faced are:

1) The country selection drop-down is too wide to fit into the side box. I found this reported in another thread with a couple of workarounds suggested but I haven't done anything on it yet as I'm pretty confident that I can find a solution (if and) when the next two issues are resolved.

2) The first serious issue has to do with entering items into the cart. There are three ways to enter items in the cart: a) by clicking on the "Buy now" button where it appears, b) by clicking the "Add to cart" button from the product description page and c) by defining a quantity for one or more items in a category page and clicking the "Add selected products to cart" button. It appears that option a) works fine and updates the cart and the estimator sidebox. Adding more products to the cart using this option doesn't cause any problem. Options b) and c) work and add products to the cart only if the cart is empty. If another item has been added with any of a), b) or c) nothing happens.

3) The other issue is that product sort order cannot change in "New", "Featured" or "All" lists when there are items in the cart. No matter what sort option is selected from the drop down list, products are sorted by "Lowest price first" which is the default. If the cart is empty, the sort order can be changed normally.

Needless to say that I don't have these issues on my live site where the side box is not installed. It's a shame really because this "external" shipping estimator is exactly what I was looking for and I was thrilled when I discovered it but subsequently disappointed to see it not working properly.

Is there any chance to have these issues fixed and make us all happy? Many thanks in advance and kind regards.

[frank18]

The current Shipping Estimator Sidebox is only for ZC v1.3.8, v1.3.9 - it has not been made available for ZC 1.5 / 1.5.1

[Athens Collectibles]

Yes Frank, I know it has not been made available for 1.5 (yet?) but I was hoping for the developer to read this and probably make it compatible eventually. I don't know about other users but I find it very useful. The number of downloads is quite high, so there are probably many more like me.

[swguy]

@AthensCollectibles, 2 and 3 don't sound like Shipping Estimator problems. These sound like issues with your template.

[Athens Collectibles]

Thanks for replying Scot.

I wish 2) and 3) were issues with my template but they are not. My template is the Classic Zen Cart template modified mostly with CSS, it's not one from TemplateMonster or another one of those who are known to create issues. Besides, as I said in my first post, none of these problems exist in the live site where the Shipping Estimator is not installed.

Thank you anyway and I shall be looking forward to reinstall the mod if and when it is officially declared compatible with 1.5 to see how it goes.

Cheers and have a nice Sunday.

[swguy]

I tried 2 and 3 and they both work fine in my setup (1.5.0 + Shipping Estimator with items in cart). Not sure what the issue you're having is; either it's a template issue or some other files are broken.