flat rate shipping to specific products

[Ajeh]

Can you go into phpMyAdmin on your site and search the table:
products

and confirm that you are using the right master_categories_id values?

Note: no Product should have a master_categories_id of 0 ...

[yoppo]

The master categories ID's are right. None of my master categories id have an ID of zero.

[Ajeh]

Can you post the file that you are using again ... make sure to post the one that is on the server to ensure we are looking at the current file ...

[yoppo]

I have it sorted. I had subcategories in the main category and I should have used those ID's instead. Seems to be working fine now.

Thanks a million!

[Ajeh]

You are most welcome ... thanks for the update that this is now working ...

[Kcin]

In the original file:
/includes/modules/shipping/flat.php

you would have added that above the code:

      $this->quotes = array('id' => $this->code,
                            'module' => MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_TEXT_TITLE,
                            'methods' => array(array('id' => $this->code,
                                                     'title' => MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_TEXT_WAY,
                                                     'cost' => MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_COST)));

and then added the extra charges to the code:

      $this->quotes = array('id' => $this->code,
                            'module' => MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_TEXT_TITLE,
                            'methods' => array(array('id' => $this->code,
                                                     'title' => MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_TEXT_WAY,
                                                     'cost' => MODULE_SHIPPING_FLAT_COST + $extra_shipping)));

So the cloned files that you have would have similar code in them that you would need to do this customization to ...

I know this thread has been dead for a while, but I found it while trying to enable flat rate for certain products only. The code in the thread worked great. But I also saw this tidbit here. I am a drop shipper and my shipper has a pretty substantial negotiated rate. They won't give me a guest XML for their rates and the standard UPS rates are ridiculously high.

Is there a method similar to what is described above that would allow me to reduce the UPS shipping rate by a percentage? I did quite a few test shipments that I think a percentage reduction can get me close enough to work. I would assume that if you can do + $extra_shipping math to the variable, there should be a way to do the same thing with the UPS rate but conduct some multiplication instead of division.

Anyone got any theories on how to about that?

[Kcin]

Okay, so nobody knew the answer to the previous question, so here is a new one, I used the below code exactly as it's intended purpose. To hide flat rate shipping when anything outside of the restricted categories is in the cart. Now I want to tweak it a little bit to hide other shipping methods when only products from one of these categories is in the cart. (ie: If flat rate is an option, I don't want them to opt for FedEx instead, I need Fedex hidden when Flat Rate shows).

Any help there? Should be similar to this block of code I imagine, but in the fedex shipper file?

Check the Flat Rate categories only with:

if (!IS_ADMIN_FLAG) {
  global $cart;
  $chk_categories = 0;
  $chk_categories += $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','1');
  $chk_categories += $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','35');
  if ($_SESSION['cart']->count_contents() != $chk_categories) {
    $this->enabled = false;
  }
}

That would turn off the Flat Rate flat shipping module if the shopping_cart does not contain Products from only categories_id 1 and 35 where those Products used these categories_id as their master_categories_id ...