Having Problems getting USPS shipping option running on my website. Need help!!!

[theteapet]

I am currently taking over the maintenance for our stores website. The website has not had any maintenance done in about a year. I do not have any previous knowledge in website building at all so I am very overwhelmed. My first and biggest issue is getting the USPS shipping option running on our website so customers can have a correct shipping price for their orders. I have received a USPS Web Tools User ID and have installed all the required information. I then called the USPS Web Tools customer service number and they said the account is live and should be working but it is not. When I try to do a test order, the USPS shipping option says it cannot calculate a price based on the provided zip code. I am going crazy!! I would really appreciate any help! Thanks in advanced. I am running on version Zen Cart 1.3.7.1

[Ajeh]

Make sure that you are using the current USPS September 7, 2014 K5 shipping module ...
http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...014-Version-K5

You should also subscribe to the News & Announcements forum:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forumdisplay...-Announcements

so that you receive current updates that may affect you ...

[theteapet]

I just installed the USPS option maybe about a week ago. I am fairly new to this whole website maintenance job I really do not understand how to download new versions and then implement them to the website. I would really appreciate it if someone could walk me step-by-step on how to properly integrate the USPS Web Tools shipping module and make sure it is working. I have attached to this thread what I have uploaded to the USPS shipping module. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Ajeh]

That doesn't look like the current USPS September 7, 2014 K5 shipping module ...

You can test which version that you have by:

Go to your Zen Cart Admin and go to Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ...

In the bottom input box enter:
usps.php

Then, select Catalog ... click SEARCH ...

What comes up on the paths to the files and the lines for:
* @version $Id: usps.php

[Ajeh]

NOTE: for installing, if you download the new version for the USPS September 7, 2014 K5 and then unzip the file into an empty directory, you will find that the files are in the order of your Zen Cart directories ...

In your FTP program, you can drag those files from:
\includes

to your
/includes

directory on your server ...

[theteapet]

How do I unzip a file?

[Ajeh]

Something like WinZip from winzip.com can unzip files ...

[theteapet]

OK I checked the version and it says:

@version $Id: usps.php

[Ajeh]

There wasn't a path to the files or more information on the lines that were found?

[theteapet]

Below is what it says when I look up the version:




/home/carlan/public_html/includes/languages 3.6/english/modules/shipping/usps.php

Line #6 : * @version $Id: usps.php 4824 2006-10-23 21:01:28Z drbyte $

/home/carlan/public_html/includes/languages 3.8/english/modules/shipping/usps.php

Line #6 : * @version $Id: usps.php 4867 2006-10-31 09:59:01Z drbyte $

/home/carlan/public_html/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/usps.php

Line #6 : * @version $Id: usps.php 4824 2006-10-23 21:01:28Z drbyte $


Warning: file(/home/carlan/public_html/includes/languages/english/tell_a_friend.php) [function.file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home4/carlan/public_html/admin/developers_tool_kit.php on line 125

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home4/carlan/public_html/admin/developers_tool_kit.php on line 128
/home/carlan/public_html/includes/modules/shipping/usps.php

Line #6 : * @version $Id: usps.php 6529 2007-06-26 00:15:57Z drbyte $