Re: 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" <stephen.jackson@violasystems.com> To: "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> 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 > stephen.jackson@violasystems.com > Mobile +358 50 343 5159 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >