[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[Vinyl Signs]

Hi - I have just registered here - so go easy
I have been "playing" with the cart for a few days now - I have installed the Royal Mail Module which is great ! - except for one problem - which may have been answered elsewhere - but I cannot find it if it has !
The problem is the "mixing" of Kg and Lbs....
When entering product weights - there is no choice as to what units are used ? they are entered as Lbs ? (unless I am missing something)
However - Royal Mail shipping weights are in Kgs ? - so on the checkout - there is a mix of units...
Is there any way to set "Global" weight units that will work throughout the cart ?
Thank you - and sorry if this has been answered before - I have found "snippets" relating to it - but no really complete answer....

[Chuckl]

Two birds with one stone -

Wadi73, the Large letter signed-for rates should normally be the same as the Large letter rates when viewed in Admin-Shipping, as the cost of the additional service is added separately, so yes, you can edit them to be the same.

Vinyl Signs, As long as we are talking about a 'Unit of Weight/Mass' then you simply need to edit /admin/includes/languages/english.php and /includes/languages/english.php, and change every instance of lbs to Kgs.
This would imply that you have entered any product weights in Kgs. but they are displaying as lbs. If however you have carefully converted them, then it's undo conversion time.

[Vinyl Signs]

This would imply that you have entered any product weights in Kgs. but they are displaying as lbs.

Not sure I fully understand
When I enter product weight - I don't get the option of entering lbs or kgs - am I to assume that after I replace every instance of lbs to Kgs in those two files - then the cart will assume that "ALL" weights (anywhere in the cart) are in fact quoted in kgs ? and integrate with the Royal Mail "kg" calculations ?

If however you have carefully converted them, then it's undo conversion time.

Again - Not sure I fully understand
Is there a way to "convert" the units ? - I don't think I have done anything like that !

[Wadi73]

Wadi73, the Large letter signed-for rates should normally be the same as the Large letter rates when viewed in Admin-Shipping, as the cost of the additional service is added separately, so yes, you can edit them to be the same.

Thanks a lot Chukl, will do so.

[Chuckl]

Vinyl Signs, you are correct. When you enter a weight you do not get a choice of units, because there aren't really any. You decide elsewhere whether the numbers you entered should have lbs. or kgs. or grams or whatever after them. Zencart makes no attempt whatsoever to reconcile weights between measurement systems.
If, when you entered a product weight as you 'saw it on the pack' - 0.5 somethings that I will decide later are kgs. then you are fine. if you carefully converted it to lbs., you'll have to re-enter the weights.

[Vinyl Signs]

Vinyl Signs, you are correct. When you enter a weight you do not get a choice of units, because there aren't really any. You decide elsewhere whether the numbers you entered should have lbs. or kgs. or grams or whatever after them. Zencart makes no attempt whatsoever to reconcile weights between measurement systems.
If, when you entered a product weight as you 'saw it on the pack' - 0.5 somethings that I will decide later are kgs. then you are fine. if you carefully converted it to lbs., you'll have to re-enter the weights.

Thanks for that - I thought that there may have been some sort of "conversion" process built in somewhere - but obviously not !
As long as you have kgs programmed "throughout" - the pricing from the RM will still be accurate - as the "prices" are "per" whatever unit you have set in your system ?
Thanks again - still have a lot to learn
(Sure I will need to return later - when I find the next problem ! )

[Wadi73]

I removed some of the values in the order_id table, but now I need them back.

I basically need the one that says order_total (3rd one down), but it needs to be 3.50

[whitecurve]

International Royal Mail options cause errors

I'm 3/4 finished setting up new 1.3.7 store for a client and Ive come across a strange problem when enabling any of the international options in the Big Royal Mail module.

Whenever i enable any of the following options, the site will work fine for the first page impression but subsequent impresions simply displays a page with a mysql error message or the page whith only so much of the markup turning up.

Royal Mail Airsure® "Small Packet"
Royal Mail Airsure® "Small Packet"
Royal Mail International Signed For®
Royal Mail International Signed For®
Royal Mail Airmail "Small Packet"

Working fine
[img=http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4738/internationalworkinglf9.th.png]

The causing an error
[img=http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9904/internationbrokeaq4.th.png]

Its like the script stops the constants being read.

Any ideas?

[Pixxi]

This is a limitation of the standard cache_data column size in all versions (AFAIK) of zen up to and including zen v1.3.7.

See post 299 (in this thread, above) for an explanation.

See also the bug report here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ad.php?t=56436

The fix is to run this SQL statement on your database via phpMyadmin:

# change cache tracking size
TRUNCATE TABLE db_cache;
ALTER TABLE db_cache CHANGE cache_data cache_data mediumblob; 

Or to change to file-based caching in your configure.php files.

[whitecurve]

This is a limitation of the standard cache_data column size in all versions (AFAIK) of zen up to and including zen v1.3.7.

See post 299 (in this thread, above) for an explanation.

See also the bug report here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ad.php?t=56436

The fix is to run this SQL statement on your database via phpMyadmin:

# change cache tracking size
TRUNCATE TABLE db_cache;
ALTER TABLE db_cache CHANGE cache_data cache_data mediumblob; 

Or to change to file-based caching in your configure.php files.

100% fixed. Many thanks Pixxi :)