[ic] shipping control

Mark Weaver mark at americanmicroinc.com
Wed Jun 30 14:50:37 EDT 2004


New Media E.M.S. wrote:

> At 10:50 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> New Media E.M.S. wrote:
>>
>> > At 08:30 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> I've got a problem that I need to address rather quickly. Some of the
>> >> products we sell using interchange are such that they will not ship
>> UPS
>> >> even though individually they meet the 150lb. per item requirement.
>> >> Because of this they need to be shipped by common carrier.
>> >>
>> >> What I need to do is check the cart on the checkout page and if one or
>> >> more of these items exists in the cart replace the shipping method
>> drop
>> >> down menu with a message that their contains items that require
>> >> specialized shipping and that they should call for shipping costs and
>> >> arrangements reguardless of whether they're logged in or not. The
>> >> checkout page has to read the cart and alert the customer of this
>> >> special nee without assigning any shipping charges to the order.
>> >>
>> >> I'm really not sure exactly where to start to accomplish this so
>> any and
>> >> all help will be hugely appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> thanks,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>  Mark Weaver
>> >>  American Micro - Webmaster
>> >>  1-800-558-2058
>> >
>> >
>> > I assume there is some kind of flag field in the products table for
>> > these items which must go by motor freight? If so, it could be as easy
>> > as adding something like this to the cart recap code on the checkout
>> page:
>> >
>> > [if-item-field motor_freight_flag_field]
>> >         [tmp motor_freight]1[/tmp]
>> > [/if-item-field]
>> >
>> >
>> > ...and then in the shipping info area:
>> >
>> > [if scratch motor_freight]
>> >         [value name=mv_shipmode value='']
>> >         <b>Your order requires special shipping arrangements.
>> >         Please contact customer service.</b>
>> > [else]
>> >         (regular shipping selector code here)
>> > [/else]
>> > [/if]
>> >
>> >
>> > - Ed L.
>> >
>>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I checked both the inventory and product tables and there doesn't appear
>> to be any type of flag that the cart could look for. Couldn't this just
>> as easily be done with the sku? I've created options for the individual
>> products in question, but all they do is half the job in that they
>> display a message that tells the customer that the item requires special
>> shipping.
> 
> 
> Unless you are only selling one or two items that require special
> handling, or the SKU's for said items contain some common pattern, you
> are better off adding a flag field which can contain a binary value for
> this purpose - it makes the logic at checkout much simpler.
> 
> - Ed

Actually these items do have something in common which is part of the
sku. MLVB is the first four characters of the sku followed by a few
different letters and numbers detailing their precise application and
attributes.

So far I've used your example in the file
include/checkout/shipping_address and its telling printing out the
message for anything and everything that is placed into the cart
thinking...well I haven't got a clue what its thinking. Here's what I've
got in that file:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
          [if-item-field sku]
                [tmp sku]1[/tmp]
          [/if-item-field]

          [if scratch sku]
             [value name=sku value='']
             <b>Your Order requires special shipping arrangements.
                Please contact customer service about your order.
               1-800-558-2058</b>
          [else]

          <tr>
                <td align="right" class="contentbar1">
                  <b>[L]Shipping method[/L]</b>
                </td>
                <td colspan="3" class="contentbar1">
                  <SELECT NAME=mv_shipmode>
                  [loop option=mv_shipmode
                  list=|[data table=country key='[default country US]'
col=shipmodes]|
                  ]
                  <OPTION VALUE="[loop-code]"> [shipping-desc [loop-code]]
                  [/loop]
                  </SELECT>
                </td>
          </tr>

          [/else]
          [/if]
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

its probably pretty obvious I don't have much of a clue as to what I'm
doing, but I'm a very quick study.

thanks,

-- 

 Mark Weaver
 American Micro - Webmaster
 1-800-558-2058




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