[ic] Multiple shipping tables based on affiliate

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Mike Heins (mheins@redhat.com):
> Quoting Dave Barr (barrd@cricinfo.com):
> > (IC 4.6.5, Debian 2.2-17, MySQL 3.22, Perl 5.005-03)
> > 
> > Hi People,
> > 
> > I have a question regarding the feasibility of having different 
> > shipping tables based on affiliates using the mv_pc=foo_shop1, 
> > mv_pc=bar_shop2. I have created a site that has one database but many 
> > different faces depending on the affiliate, up till now there was a 
> > central fulfillment house but that has now changed and I need to 
> > create different shipping tables for each affiliate.
> > 
> > I should point out that I *do not* wish to have separate shops at 
> > this time, this is part of a long term strategy that in the future 
> > will allow the sharing of shops contents betwixt several shops using 
> > a switch in the affiliates db so that they can be independent or part 
> > of a mall.
> > 
> > Order routing was easy enough to implement, but the shipping has got 
> > me stumped, if any one has any suggestions / pointers that would help 
> > kick start me off in the right direction I would be very very 
> > grateful.
> 
> It's pretty easy, I think, and even documented.
> 
> You can do at the top of your checkout:
> 
>     [if session source]
> 	[if type=file term="affiliate_shipping/[data session source].asc"]
> 	<--
> 	    Reading shipping from affiliate_shipping/[data session source].asc:
> 	    [shipping file="affiliate_shipping/[data session source].asc"]
> 	-->
> 	[/if]
>     [/if]

Oh, I should add that you need to do this once in every place where you
want the special file to be read.

What might be easier is to define a separate set of shipping modes
for each affiliate and do that tranlation instead.

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