[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[coffee granules]

I believe I have fixed it.

I deleted shipping_methods.php, renaming shipping_methods_uk.php to shipping_methods.php... and everything is showing up perfect everywhere!

I have yet to do a test order, but am about to and will report back when I do.

As for the codeine, I was not taking the mickey. - I actually suffer from chronic migraines that have hospitalized me on a number of occasions and strong codeine with ibuprofen is about the only stuff that controls the damned things... and it is so nice just to be pain free for several hours and to be able to concentrate without feeling like I've just been in a major headbutting session with a brick wall...

[philip_clarke]

I believe I have fixed it.

I deleted shipping_methods.php, renaming shipping_methods_uk.php to shipping_methods.php... and everything is showing up perfect everywhere!

I have yet to do a test order, but am about to and will report back when I do.

Reading the shipping_uk code, he already generated everything needed for the uk modules to work, whomever coded it though very much ahead. It would appear that instructions in the zip file are somewhat lacking though.

As for the codeine, I was not taking the mickey. - I actually suffer from chronic migraines that have hospitalized me on a number of occasions and strong codeine...

Don't take codeine then one of the side effects is supposed to be migraines (don't get them myself). Might be codeine phosphate, but that doesn't work on me, I take 8x 30mg tablets of DHC a day the strongest panadol contains 7.46 mg (sometimes I need a bit more) it takes the pain just down to the level where the adrenalin puts my heart rate up to 90-120 BPM a minute at rest. No codeine and

• headache due to withdrawal,
• my heart goes to 150 bpm at rest so walking up the stairs could make it explode.

Pain doesn't kill, the body's response to 14 years of pain can though.

[philip_clarke]

I believe I have fixed it.

I deleted shipping_methods.php, renaming shipping_methods_uk.php to shipping_methods.php... and everything is showing up perfect everywhere!

Now you see if you had read the changelog then

24/08/2007 v1.4.1beta1 (ropu)
- Added shipping_methods_uk.php with UK pre-configured shipping methods.

so all that one needs to do to get google checkout working is to rename a file for the past 14 months or so !

[coffee granules]

You've a very bad condition there and, yes, it is the phosphate variant I take.

...and yes, it would appear that Ropu has added a UK profile and not coded it in properly (scrambled logic statements?)

I agree that the documentation could be better, too. - The installation test, in particular, is very confusing because it leaves you not knowing whether you should be seeing a login request page or not.

Incidentally ('breadcrumb' time again!) According to Misty, and several other users of the module, if you see the login screen when carrying out the installation test then all is good and fine, and your GC module is installed correctly.

[philip_clarke]

You've a very bad condition there and, yes, it is the phosphate variant I take.

...and yes, it would appear that Ropu has added a UK profile and not coded it in properly (scrambled logic statements?)

I agree that the documentation could be better, too. - The installation test, in particular, is very confusing because it leaves you not knowing whether you should be seeing a login request page or not.

Incidentally ('breadcrumb' time again!) According to Misty, and several other users of the module, if you see the login screen when carrying out the installation test then all is good and fine, and your GC module is installed correctly.

Well I don't know about that, but I'm not supposed to be "here" I'm supposed to be checking through the payment module's security in general, so I may ask you a favour at a later date to borrow your sandbox.

Philip.

[coffee granules]

Well, I suppose being here beats being flamed by a bunch of ungrateful so-and-so's over at OSCommerce...

...and there shouldn't be any problems testing with our sandbox if it will help you with your projects.

You might need to PM me, though, 'cause I'm not always online at the forums and my hours vary allot - at the moment I'm in a nocturnal phase...

[philip_clarke]

It doesn't work.

Seriously, I have just put a sandbox together and the google checkout does not work. the shipping_uk one has all the modules in it wheter they are installed or not, and the only thing that I can see is that google will charge £1 for the shipping. NOT a good place to be for your at thi exact momnet in time. It is NOT the shipping Module, it appears to be the implementation of the google code, where that button appears, it needs a rewrite

[philip_clarke]

Just checked, it's a flat rate system that just labels the amounts you put in. It does knock off international things if your google is set to the UK, but it's just a flat rate with a royal mail title grabbed from the modules.

It needs to be stopped, placed in the traditional way, where people can choose the correct shipping for the weight and then pass the information to google. Basically it is a very limited button. At least on my screen the checkout appears under the chopping cart, not on the confirmation page, so there is no change in delievery address, it takes google's account details address. I have overriden the default templates, when I didn't, I dind't get the google button.

anyway this is not something to discuss here, it's something to discuss over at the google checkout cupport thread. And osC, I have no idea, and I doubt they do, I checked again and the download contains at least 7 exploits, the payment modules are now in disarray as the guy that screens the add-ins, just doesn't as "I havea mortgage to pay" and the only person with the keys to the code has gone walkabout. 14,000 osC shops alomst all of them with at least 2 exploits, and they said "don't blame the coders".

[philip_clarke]

Just checked, it's a flat rate system that just labels the amounts you put in. It does knock off international things if your google is set to the UK, but it's just a flat rate with a royal mail title grabbed from the modules.

I will now eat my own words.

This is how google checkout works and it's really quite good but you have to configure it very carefully.

Right here goes then first off go here:

http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

and check if you get this type of error message

Cannot open /var/www/html/googlecheckout/logs/response_error.log file. Logs are not writable, set them to 777

So you set them to read write or owned by the webserver.

What happens is that you click on that Google button and it sends you to google with a call back to get the shipping rates that you have specified/ installed. When you set up google checkout then you put in default values for your service in case the call back fails, and this is why I thought it was a flat rate. So if set up correctly it goes.

• Click on button
• go to google
• google calls your shop for the shipping rates available for the weight of the item
• the rates appears in the select

if the call home fails, then it reverts to default values you have set up.

To try and diagnose the problem is a bit "tricky" visiting the googleresponse page above is helpful in that it if you have correct permission to write to your log files, then it presents you with a password access box ! This is the first time that I have seen true two way communication between a payment module and shipping rates.

So UK people,

• install "big royal mail"
• then install google checkout,
• then copy googlecheckout/shipping_methods_uk.php to overwrite shipping_methods.php.
• then visit
  
  http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php
  
  
  to see if you get errors (and remember on a test site google may still not be able to communicate with your shop).
• put in default values for the UK shipping modules in case communication does fail in the google payment module.
• remove all the USA shipping options at the bottom which is irrelevant by setting GoogleCheckout Carrier Calculated Shipping to false

That should then work (paypal donations to [email protected] for having worked this through and having written the modules in the first place).

Philip.

[coffee granules]

Hello again!

Thanks for the testing. - I've hit another problem with something else, so I had not got around to doing the tests on GC just yet.

I will review what you have listed and will post again later (maybe much later - looks like you've been pretty busy!).