AustPost Improved

[RodG]

I honestly don't know why, but my client is shipping plants and aparently there are different regulations for shipments to WA which require higher handling fees. I can find out for you if you want to know.

Nah. not really important.

As for code changes, I am no PHP programmer, but can hold my own in C.

If you can do C you can do php. The syntax is very similar.

So I think that armed with a PHP manual and the source code, I could potentially make some changes to the code.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Of all the files in the austpost distribution archive the one you'll be editing is
/includes/modules/shipping/austpost.php

I guess I need to find out if the area code starts with 8 and if it does, add a constant to the handling fee.

Yup. That about sums it up. I suggest you view the code mentioned above. You'll probably find it'll be easier than you think. Don't bother with a php manual until/unless you really need it.

Don't spend too much time with this though. I have a new update all complete and ready to be zipped up (then unzipped, final tested, etc). Should only take me a few hours, but it has been in this state for almost 2 weeks now due to lack of time. :-(.

Anyway, point is, any changes you make to the current module will need to be redone with the upgrade, which *could* be available as soon as next weekend (but current track record puts this about 2 or 3 weekends away).

Cheers
Rod