Need help to add additional shipping charge to downloadable products

[hiltonroutley]

Would really appreciate the help if someone could tell me how to make a shipping charge go with downloadable products. I set up in my shop the "shipping" charge to "Service Charge" so it's important that I get a shipping charge to show up with my downloadable products because my shop does downloadable tickets.

 

Someone please help!

 

www.gofest.ca

[bellini13]

you can specify in the product if there is an additional shipping cost

[hiltonroutley]

That's what I want to do. I use that feature but then it doesn't show up because it's a downloadable product.

 

Anyone know how to fix this? PLEASE HELP!

[hiltonroutley]

No-one knows how to fix this?

[evanburke]

I'd also really like some help with this.

 

It's got to be like 1 line of programming somewhere.

 

All I really need is the ability to add the additional shipping fees REGARDLESS if its downloadable or not.

[bellini13]

Its a matter of tracing through the code and removing any conditions of virtual products from the logic. If you'd like to hire someone for that project, send me a PM and we can discuss those details.

[evanburke]

"any" conditions? "any" conditions will remove a lot of other functionality.

 

It needs to be the specific condition for adding shipping costs in the cart. That's all.

 

That's why I'm saying it's probably line of code somewhere.

Edited July 31, 2012 by evanburke (see edit history)

[evanburke]

Ok, I found a quick solution. I need to test it fully to make sure it's not impacting any other functionality:

1. Open /classes/Cart.php and go down to line 1433.
   
2. Edit the function isVirtualCart() so it looks like this: public function isVirtualCart(){return false;}
   

Seems to be working great though. I can add "Additional Shipping" for downloadable products, and now that extra cost gets calculated in my cart.

Edited July 31, 2012 by evanburke (see edit history)

[evanburke]

hiltonroutley, I use the "Additional Shipping" costs for downloadable products the same way you do, as a service charge.

[bellini13]

have you tried to place an order and download the product after making that change?

[hiltonroutley]

Ah!! THANK YOU!!! I have been waiting so long for this!

[hiltonroutley]

Everything seems to run smoothly so Im very very happy. I think everything should still download just fine though. If it doesn't ill post up here after someone does a purchase. Thank you very much evanburke

[evanburke]

Yes I tested this all the way through the checkout process. You can still download the product after paying for it.

 

It seems to be working correctly.

Edited July 31, 2012 by evanburke (see edit history)

[hiltonroutley]

just to clarify for any others that need help. I'm also making sure with evanburke this is the right way to do it.

 

so in cart.php you go to the part of the code that says

public function isVirtualCart()
{
 if (!isset(self::$_isVirtualCart[$this->id]))
 {
  $products = $this->getProducts();
  if (!sizeof($products))
   return false;
  $list = '';
  foreach ($products AS $product)
   $list .= (int)($product['id_product']).',';
  $list = rtrim($list, ',');
  $n = (int)Db::getInstance()->getValue('
  SELECT COUNT(`id_product_download`) n
  FROM `'._DB_PREFIX_.'product_download`
  WHERE `id_product` IN ('.pSQL($list).') AND `active` = 1');
  self::$_isVirtualCart[$this->id] = ($n == sizeof($products));
 }
 return self::$_isVirtualCart[$this->id];
}

 

Then you add "{return false;}" and remove the rest so it should look like this?

public function isVirtualCart(){return false;}

[bellini13]

the proper way would be to create an override of the Cart class. this way you can more easily retain the customization through upgrades. search for overriding class files in the forum