Big Royal Mail 3.0

[brittainmark]

Is there any chance of getting Royal Mail Special Delivery with Saturday Guarantee added to the plug-in?? A lot of my customers are asking for this!

Ok I have added a new version of this module in release 3.2.2 it is just going through validation at the plugins site.

There are two Extra fields: "Friday Cutoff" and "Display for ? days before" these are used to decide when to display the option of Saturday delivery.
The Firday Cutoff: is the time after which you will no longer fulfil an order on the friday. it defaults to 12:00 (midday). so If the order is recieved after 12:00 on Friday Saturday delivery will not be enabled.
Display for ? days before: is the number of days before the cutoff you want to display the option of saturday delivery. for example if you set it to 1 then the option for saturday delivery will be available for all orders after 12:00 on thursday and before 12:00 on friday. If you set it to 7 it is always displayed.

Hope that makes sense.

Mark

[Josh4u]

Hello Mark

Will you be doing an update to incorporate the Jan 19th 2015 price increases?

Thanks in advance - great product.

[brittainmark]

Hello Mark

Will you be doing an update to incorporate the Jan 19th 2015 price increases?

Thanks in advance - great product.

The price change you refer to I assume is the change for Xmas to allow small parcel to be used instead of medium parcel. As I did not change the rates for the Xmas change the current rates are valid. The next change I know about is expected 30 March. I will do my best to get it there in time. I am dependent on the post office letting me have the details. I usually only get about a weeks notice of the new rates.

[Josh4u]

Hello again Mark

You could be right - I was handed a leaflet from the post mistress and was told of "new prices" - the leaflet states "valid from 19th Jan 2015" so perhaps she though the prices were going up then and not back to the pre-christmas promotional prices.

That'll teach me to listen to her lol

[budy]

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this issue, but I couldn't find any other one closer to what my problem is... So bear with me please.
The thing is that in the last couple of days I realized that I have a problem in my site that doesn't seem to affect the proper function of it but generates an awful lot error files in the cache folder. It produces these error files from the cart contents page, shipping estimator, checkout, login. This is one of the main errors:

[12-Feb-2015 03:11:32 America/Chicago] PHP Warning:  Creating default object from empty value in /home2/argos33/public_html/includes/functions/extra_functions/init_parcelforce_GPL.php on line 111 

And this is another one: (I supposed this definitively should be posted somewhere else, but if there is someone here who may know it I appreciate the help)

[12-Feb-2015 03:12:15 America/Chicago] PHP Warning:  Creating default object from empty value in /home2/argos33/public_html/includes/modules/shipping_estimator.php on line 107 

What puzzles me is this America/Chicago thing and the home2, I don't understand... Well, If there is somebody who can help me I would be really grateful.

[brittainmark]

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this issue, but I couldn't find any other one closer to what my problem is... So bear with me please.
The thing is that in the last couple of days I realized that I have a problem in my site that doesn't seem to affect the proper function of it but generates an awful lot error files in the cache folder. It produces these error files from the cart contents page, shipping estimator, checkout, login. This is one of the main errors:

[12-Feb-2015 03:11:32 America/Chicago] PHP Warning:  Creating default object from empty value in /home2/argos33/public_html/includes/functions/extra_functions/init_parcelforce_GPL.php on line 111 

And this is another one: (I supposed this definitively should be posted somewhere else, but if there is someone here who may know it I appreciate the help)

[12-Feb-2015 03:12:15 America/Chicago] PHP Warning:  Creating default object from empty value in /home2/argos33/public_html/includes/modules/shipping_estimator.php on line 107 

What puzzles me is this America/Chicago thing and the home2, I don't understand... Well, If there is somebody who can help me I would be really grateful.

Sorry wrong thread. I assume that you have installed a parcel force delivery module not big royal mail. I do not have any function in extra functions. I think that America/Chicago refers to the time zone your server thinks it is in. Sorry not much help.

Mark

[budy]

Hello Mark, thanks for your reply. Yes I have Big Royal Mail v3.2.2. I just recently updated it from version 3.0... The file causing issues comes from the times of Philip Clarke, but I don't think up until recently gave this error. So, as you said BRM have no extra functions I just deleted the file and then, when checking again, I found that the file giving errors was this one:
includes/functions/extra_functions/init_royalmail.php, I deleted it too.

Then, doing the checking on the website, I found that the checkout page was completely blank, giving this error:

PHP Fatal error:  Class 'ParcelForceWW' not found in /home2/xxxxx/public_html/includes/modules/shipping/ukzr.php on line 11 

I reinstalled the two files again and the checkout is working, but the errors are still there. As I said, these errors don't affect the normal functioning of the website, but accumulate a big amount of errors in the cache folder. I wonder if by deleting just the line that is creating problems, that would be enough. I mean in the case of init_royalmail.php on line 23, just deleting the line 23 which is:

$ms->add( 'The Royal Mail International modules only ship with example data for the shipping rates, <a href="'.zen_href_link('sqlupdates_licence.php').'">click here for details</a> on 

And in the case of Parcel Force by deleting the line 111:

$ms->add( 'The ParcelForce WorldWide modules only ship with example data for the shipping rates, <a href="'.zen_href_link('sqlupdates_licence.php').'">click here for details</a> on obtaining the updates.', 'error');}  $ms->pfrm=true;  ///*  } 

I appreciate if you can throw some light on this. Thanks again.

[brittainmark]

Hi Budy,
It looks like you have installed "UK ParcelForce Shipping" I suggest that you remove all the modules that are related to this and run the SQL uninstall.
I would also replace the shipping estimator with the default one supplied by zen cart "tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php". You may have replaced this with the optional one from Phil's module. I completely recreated the ParcelForce modules in big royal mail and did not look at his old code.

Alternatively back up your database. Run the SQL uninstall. Then do a complete reinstall of zencart (removing existing files first "Remember to keep you config files") then install only the plugins you want.

If you have a test system try on the test system to see what you need to do.

Sorry I don't know phil's code for parcelforce.

Mark

[budy]

Thank you for your replay, Mark.

I have here a screenshot of the modules I have in the admin

What I sould remove is all ver3.03 modules? and for the SQL uninstall where I can find it, I don't think I have anything from the times of P. Clarke.

Maybe is about time to update to Zen Cart 1.5.4 and to start afresh. The problem is that I may do it in about two months time. Do you reckon this is an issue that can wait or it would be better to sort it out as soon as possible.

I really appreciate your help and your patience.

[brittainmark]

The issue is with all the modules that start Parcelforce... these are not part of big royal mail. I think these are old Philip Clark modules. It is not big royal mail that needs to be removed but all of the other parcelforce modules.

You need to find the download that installed these modules and it should have instructions on hoe to get rid of them.

If not then I think your idea of upgrading the the latest zencart is a good one.

Mark