How to restrict payment method by category?

[GLV]

Hello,

Let me start off by making the typical statement that I swear I searched. Second of all, I have very limited php knowledge, moderate html knowledge, and have only been using zen-cart for about a week. :)

Here is my problem...

My company sells parts right now that are not very expensive. We are building this site to be able to take credit card orders and it works well.

The site has impressed my bosses so much that they now want to sell very expensive equipment on it as well. However they do not want people to be able to buy the equipment with a credit card (due to the huge hit we take based on the percentage fees).

I have all of the equipment we are offering for sale in a new category. How can I make it so that items from this specific category have to be purchased with a specific payment method (I have a "send invoice" payment method that I hacked in).

The only other catch I see with this is if they try to add "equipment" and "parts" to their cart. Would it then just restrict the whole order to the "send invoice" payment method? That would be acceptable, I just don't want them to get an error.

Thanks in advance for any help, I will be checking back like every 5 seconds :) (but not whining in a post each time).

Once again, I thank you very much for any help you can provide me.

Nick

[DrByte]

Where'd you get the "send invoice" module?

[GLV]

Where'd you get the "send invoice" module?

I'm sorry it is called "Account Holder" ... I changed the language file to make it say "Send Invoice".

I take it that means you don't know the answer to my question though?

[DrByte]

I take it that means you don't know the answer to my question though?

Not without seeing the code for the module. Perhaps you could zip and attach it?

[GLV]

I will gladly do that later this afternoon, but how does the one specific module affect it? All that module does is add a payment type. It seems like I would need to make changes to the core to restrict the purchasing of items in a certain category to one particular payment type "ID".

I will edit this with the attachment shortly though.

[GLV]

Actually its right here: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=511

The only thing I changed was the wording of it in the language file.

[DrByte]

You're welcome. Don't forget to get the powers that be to show their thanks with their pocketbook ... http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...es&pages_id=14

[GLV]

DrByte...

I have another similar question.

I need to add a new shipping "method" that is basically just that we will contact them with a shipping quote. What is the best way to do this?

I imagine I would customize some already existing method...

The reason I am asking this here is I need to restrict 2 of my categories to this shipping method (the same 2 categories that I restricted the payment method with you on this thread).

Thank you for suggestions.

[GLV]

I got it working with adapting the stuff we did for the payment modules and using that on my table shipping module, so now the table rates are not available if any items are included from the 2 categories that require freight shipping.

So that is great, but I have an error on line 86 and 87 of that table.php and I think it is making my store run REALLY SLOW ... but it is working...

The error is:

Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /modifiedurlforprivacy.com/includes/modules/shipping/table.php on line 86

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /modifiedurlforprivacy.com/includes/modules/shipping/table.php on line 87