[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[asphole]

I have just upgraded to version 2.3.3 but for some reason Eurozone48, internationalstandard and internationaldatapost are not being offered as an option during checkout. The zones definition all appear to be correct so i'm stumped why it might not show. I have set all 3 to be active and ensured all weight/pricing is correct. It may be an issue with my zones but i dont understand why this previously worked. I was going to try and remove the complete module and retry installing it but was not sure what needed deleting from the database so if anyone has ny ideas i would be grateful.

PSoes anybody know of a complete zones sql download that works with this mod?

[philip_clarke]

After I've had my dinner I shall have a look, knowing which version you upgraded from and which version of ZC you are using would help.

As for the zones SQL they should be in the optional folder, or installed when the module is installed and removed. It's one of the things on a back burner but I could move it forward as long as that idiot Ginetta keeps his/ her mouth shut.

[asphole]

Hi Phil, Any help would be much appreciated. I've reinstalled a few times and now the international standard is showing but it is showing Spain as Zone 12 but it actually zone 8. Maybe a clue to whats going on? The other 2 arent showing still. If you want to take a look at the site let me know and i'll PM you access.

[philip_clarke]

Okay, I don't have a probem getting the international standard to show, BUT, everything is being placed into zone 12 which I'll have to fix.

It is probable that the same kind of bug is responsible for international datapost, and eurozone 48 not showing up. What happened was the world fell over in one of the ZC upgrades where it didn't like _ (that's an underline) in the shipping module name, that was fixed but it looks like there has been some knock on effects. I would guess that it will be fixed tonight, the SQL for the correct rates will then be available 24 hours after that if anyone is interested,

I must obviously go now and fix it.

Philip.

[asphole]

Hi Philip, At least i'm not going totally mad wondering if it was something set up wrong. I'll wait to see if you can sort it before doing anything else. Should the eurozone and datapost standard show up then? There isnt anythin required for it to show other than the customer being located in europe? (If zencart is seeing spain as being located in the rest of the world would that explain why the eurozone48 module is not being offered?)

[philip_clarke]

Shhh, I'm working.

Yes they should show up and they did a few days ago.

[philip_clarke]

as a quick fix

http://########################.co.uk/versions/i...alstandard.txt
http://########################.co.uk/versions/i...aldatapost.txt
http://########################.co.uk/versions/eurozone48.txt

These should all be downloaded and renamed .php instead of .txt
Put them in includes/modules/shipping/ replacing the existing files and the system should work without a remove and install.

Note that Eurozone48 obviously disappears when a USA address is used. And International Standard disappears when a French or Spanish address is used. Datapost should be consistent for all country selections.

Philip.

[asphole]

Philip, You're a genius! I've just uploaded the new files and the 3 options are now appearing when expected. I'm going to do a bit more testing but there will certainly be some beer money donated 2m! Just a quick question about the RM prices update you mentioned previously. Is this chargeable? What exactly is the update?

Cheers again for the quick fix and if any of the 10,000 downloaders are still reading then I think this guy seriously deserves a few donations for the sheer amount of FREE work and more importantly quick support he has put in into this module alone!! Without guys like this we would all still be using a pretty bog standard cr*p version of zen!

[philip_clarke]

Progress Report.

I have decided that since the Royal Mail sold off ParcelForce, I should also split the modules into Royal Mail and Parcelforce.

Having spent most of last night and this morning going through the parcelforce price list, I've found that Eurozone 48 doesn't really exist and that there are two new modules required "Global Priority" and "Economy". No I'll modify that statement, there are services for account holders where Euro 48 exists and non-account holders who then have a selection of three options (account holders only have two options). Also International Standard used to only be for countries outside of europe as the "non-account" holder could use Eurozone48. So basically I have to create new modules, and mark up the modules for account and non-account holders and big royal mail is now very big with 32 options, so I think it's time to split it since people using the post office don't need the additional complexity or overhead of having the shipping option installed (even if disabled then the the modules still load and say "I'm not installed").

So tonight or tomorrow the modules will be split into ParcelForce and RoyalMail, both are currently functional but the ParcelForce will remove all previous data for the first version due to technical reasons e.g. that up until recently International Standard was not available to Europe so there are NULL values in the database that require stripping out.

I would expect 6 or 7 modules in parcelforce and big royal mail to be reduced by 4 modules.

Thank you
Philip.

[philip_clarke]

version 2.3.4
06/04/2009
Minor bug fix to Airmail Small Packets, when uninstalled and error was displayed in admin.
Major change in that parcelforce and all courier modules have now been removed and are to be found under ParcelForce shipping modules.

ParcelForce enquires should now be directed at the thread

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=711253