[PHP] Shipping problem...
Hi all, I have a problem which I'm not sure the best way to go about. We will be shipping products based on weight and I have two types of product with differing weights. Basically we want to charge one price for shipping less than 10 KG and one for anything over that. I wonder how to go about it. I have the weights for each product and have my products organised into two categories in MySQL DB. So anything in category 1 means less than 30 items is below 10 Kilos and 15 in category 2. How would you code this? I have tried adding a weight category to my products table and calculating total weight (then a simple if statement would do the trick) but it leads to other problems which I couldn't de-bug. Basically adding to my products table means my DB won't update due to a Mysql error (column count didn't match or something) so I can't do it that way or at least as my shop is currently working I'm scared of messing with the code too much! I also need to have a combination of the two products so the customer might buy 1 of category 2 and 35 of cat 1 etc. Ideas to tackle this please? Steve Jackson Web Developer Viola Systems Ltd. http://www.violasystems.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +358 50 343 5159 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Shipping problem...
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 15:35, Steve Jackson wrote: Hi all, I have a problem which I'm not sure the best way to go about. We will be shipping products based on weight and I have two types of product with differing weights. Basically we want to charge one price for shipping less than 10 KG and one for anything over that. I wonder how to go about it. I have the weights for each product and have my products organised into two categories in MySQL DB. So anything in category 1 means less than 30 items is below 10 Kilos and 15 in category 2. Perhaps I don't understand you properly -- why you need two categories? How is shipping charge calculated? Do you just have two rates (which your 1st paragraph seems to imply) -- ie If the total weight of products is under 10KG charge $5, otherwise charge $10? ... How would you code this? I have tried adding a weight category to my products table and calculating total weight (then a simple if statement would do the trick) ... In which case, yes a simple if statement would suffice. but it leads to other problems which I couldn't de-bug. Basically adding to my products table means my DB won't update due to a Mysql error (column count didn't match or something) Perhaps if you post your code and your db schema here then someone may be able to help. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * /* God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Shipping problem...
I have tried adding a weight category to my products table and calculating total weight (then a simple if statement would do the trick) but it leads to other problems which I couldn't de-bug. That sounds like the best idea to me, whats the big you had? Tim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Custom Programming Web Programming community discussion http://www.inter-apps.com - Original Message - From: Steve Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP General [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:35 AM Subject: [PHP] Shipping problem... Hi all, I have a problem which I'm not sure the best way to go about. We will be shipping products based on weight and I have two types of product with differing weights. Basically we want to charge one price for shipping less than 10 KG and one for anything over that. I wonder how to go about it. I have the weights for each product and have my products organised into two categories in MySQL DB. So anything in category 1 means less than 30 items is below 10 Kilos and 15 in category 2. How would you code this? I have tried adding a weight category to my products table and calculating total weight (then a simple if statement would do the trick) but it leads to other problems which I couldn't de-bug. Basically adding to my products table means my DB won't update due to a Mysql error (column count didn't match or something) so I can't do it that way or at least as my shop is currently working I'm scared of messing with the code too much! I also need to have a combination of the two products so the customer might buy 1 of category 2 and 35 of cat 1 etc. Ideas to tackle this please? Steve Jackson Web Developer Viola Systems Ltd. http://www.violasystems.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +358 50 343 5159 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Shipping problem...
hehe I meant to say BUG ;) That sounds like the best idea to me, whats the big you had? Tim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Custom Programming Web Programming community discussion http://www.inter-apps.com - Original Message - From: Steve Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP General [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:35 AM Subject: [PHP] Shipping problem... Hi all, I have a problem which I'm not sure the best way to go about. We will be shipping products based on weight and I have two types of product with differing weights. Basically we want to charge one price for shipping less than 10 KG and one for anything over that. I wonder how to go about it. I have the weights for each product and have my products organised into two categories in MySQL DB. So anything in category 1 means less than 30 items is below 10 Kilos and 15 in category 2. How would you code this? I have tried adding a weight category to my products table and calculating total weight (then a simple if statement would do the trick) but it leads to other problems which I couldn't de-bug. Basically adding to my products table means my DB won't update due to a Mysql error (column count didn't match or something) so I can't do it that way or at least as my shop is currently working I'm scared of messing with the code too much! I also need to have a combination of the two products so the customer might buy 1 of category 2 and 35 of cat 1 etc. Ideas to tackle this please? Steve Jackson Web Developer Viola Systems Ltd. http://www.violasystems.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +358 50 343 5159 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
