Different shipping methods for different categories

[tylerd213]

Hi, I have been searching around a lot and cant seem to find the answer to my question.. I have two categories of which i need to assign different shipping methods for each (Products in 1st category can be shipped with any shipping method but products in category 2 can only be picked up in store, so a forced in store pickup)

How would i go about doing this?? I read stuff about Mixed Carts, but am unsure what that is.

Thanks,
Tyler

[tylerd213]

Anybody have any ideas??

Thanks!
Tyler

[Ajeh]

You could customize the shipping modules that when a given master_categories_id is in the shopping cart then only Store Pickup storepickup can run ...

Otherwise, when nothing from that master_categories_id is in the cart then all other Shipping modules run ...

You should also consider whether you want Store Pickup storepickup to always show as an option ...

[tylerd213]

Ok, this is basically what i want to do. Unfortunately i have no idea where to begin (Im new with PHP).

But to give you some more information, i only have one other shipping option in my cart (2 total with storepickup) which is Per Item. So what i would want to do is in the Per Item shipping module include code somewhere that states if the master_categories_id is 17 (the one i want storepickup on) then disable this shipping module.

Store pickup can be shown on all other products, it just has to be the only forced option in this one category :)

Thanks for your help thus far, its so much appreciated!!

[Ajeh]

Let's say you want the Per Item item shipping module to turn off or hide when 1 or more products from categories_id 17 is in the shopping cart ...

Edit the shipping module:
/includes/modules/shipping/item.php

      // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
      if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
        if ($_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','17') > 0) {
          $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_ITEM_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
        }
      } 

This will cause the $this->enabled to evaluate as false and not show the Per Item item shipping module ...

[tylerd213]

We are close!! Thanks so much! But a couple issues:

It seems to work backwards, it enables per item shipping for the category 17 but disables it for the rest of the categories.

second in the admin panel when i click on shipping modules it states:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/content/W/o/l/Wolves17/html/cart/includes/modules/shipping/item.php on line 28



Thanks so much for your help so far! I will be donating

[Ajeh]

Silly silly me ... such the dyslexic am I ...

You want this OFF when categories_id is in the shopping cart ...

Based on the assumption that these products use the master_categories_id 17, you need that to be > 0 so that it sets Per Item item shipping module to a false $this->enabled ...

I was sorta losing my mind at the time ... t'wasn't nothin' ...

[Ajeh]

Let me find the secret code for the admin conflict on the cart ... kinda forgot about that one ...

[Ajeh]

This would work better and not make the Admin have a fit:

      // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
      if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
          $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_ITEM_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
      }

      // disable for one master_categories_id
      if ((IS_ADMIN_FLAG == false && $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id','17') > 0)) {
          $this->enabled = false;
      } 

[tylerd213]

Wow, you are awesome! Thank you so much! It works great :)