ozpost shipping module

[dw08gm]

Methinks you may need a lesson or three on OOP (Object orientated programming). These modules, like all other shipping modules, (and almost everything else relating to zencart) can be enabled/disabled and/or used in conjunction with any other module simply by using the the precoded methods/functions (or whatever else you wish to call them).

I appreciate your continued detailed responses in explaining the complexities of shipping and programming, although I fear I may never fully grasp the latter.

What I'm saying here is that it will require no more (and no less) 'interaction' than (say) the way the postage modules interact with zencart itself, or the way zencart manages to take the results from the postage modules and uses those results for checkout processing, etc.

At *most* the AustPost/ozpost module(s) will require one additional line to be added, and that would be a check to see if any given item in the cart needs to be excluded from the Austpost/ozpost processing,

Yes. My previous post was really directly towards retaining the Austpost module as the primary shipping module, that ships as much as it can first and foremost, whereupon other methods must be sought for what AusPost cannot ship. Upon reflection, however, I gather this could result in (require) order splitting based on shipped items.

but even this could be avoided by having the new module preprocess the shopping cart items (which it will need to do anyway) and removing them from the datastream before the module is called, and that is assuming the module needs to still be called anyway (in addition to the 'post separately' items.

Now I see what you mean. I favour the idea of a pre-processor, where a customer can add items to a cart and then choose which items to ship at which time. And such a pre-processor should be in the domain of Zen Cart or another module.

In the *simplest* case, the new module will only need do a check to see if the 'special delivery' flag is set, and if so, set the variable to disable the AustPost module(s) for that particular shopping cart.

Does that all make sense to you?

Cheers
Rod

Yes and thanks once again.

Looking at the upload date of the OZPost module (15 March 2009), I gather the most recent version has yet to be sanctioned.