eCart - Shipping rates from country codes

Dear Webassist,
I am building a database site with CS3/DataAssist/eCart5 with items_detail, cart, checkout, confirm, etc through to Paypal standard payment.
I am using XAMPP 1.7.3, MySql 5.1, Php 5.3.1, local server to test.
At present I have a single (6.25) flat rate shipping applied to the total amount in the cart.
I would like to apply three different flat rates for shipping, based on the entered Checkout form country codes?
Rate1-£6.25 United Kingdom "GB"
Rate2-£7.60 Europe "AL","AD","AM","AT","BE","BG", etc,
Rate3-£9.60 USA, rest of World "US","AU","BR", etc.

I have looked through "Shippping rates" in the forum which suggests this is achievable
but I'm not sure how or quite where to start.
Can you help me please
Johnnie

i would set the chosen shipping country as a session variable, and use this variable in the shipping calculation.

(On your confirm page, you may already have this variable in place)

if (!session_id()) session_start();
if (isset($_POST["Checkout"]) || isset($_POST["Checkout_x"]))  {
  $_SESSION["eCartCheckoutForm_country"] = "".((isset($_POST["country"]))?$_POST["country"]:"")  ."";
}

in your ecart object, under the shipping tab, you create 3 shipping rules, one for each of your possible shipping options.

eg for GB shipping, make the condition based on a session variable value, the variable name being what you call it, (it would be 'eCartCheckoutForm_country' using the above code) and the value = 'GB' and the calculation as a flat rate.

for europe shipping, make the condition based on a session variable value = 'AL' or 'AD' etc

eg

Thanks for your help Craig,
That works, all the correct totals go through to PayPal gateway, and in the specified country code language.
However, only if the top line of code//Shipping (in this case "ShippingGB" = "6.25")is selected, does the shipping cost get shown above the Total, on file confirm.php.

Any Ideas?
Johnnie

From ecart1_PHP.php
//Shipping
$this->Shipping[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("ShippingGB"), true, "WAEC_eCart1_ShippingGB");
$this->Shipping[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("ShippingEurope"), true, "WAEC_eCart1_ShippingEurope");
$this->Shipping[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("ShippingUSA"), true, "WAEC_eCart1_ShippingUSA");
}
//end node

//eCart Rule
function WAEC_eCart1_ShippingGB() {
$totalShipping = 0;
if (true && (((isset($_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_country'])?$_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_country']:"") == "GB"))) {
$totalShipping += 6.25;//Result
}
return WA_eCart_FormatNumber($totalShipping, $this->ForceDecimalsC, $this->DecimalPlacesC);
}
//eCart Rule
//eCart Rule
function WAEC_eCart1_ShippingEurope() {
$totalShipping = 0;
if (true && (((isset($_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_country'])?$_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_country']:"") == "FR"))) {
$totalShipping += 7.60;//Result
}
return WA_eCart_FormatNumber($totalShipping, $this->ForceDecimalsC, $this->DecimalPlacesC);
}
//eCart Rule
//eCart Rule
function WAEC_eCart1_ShippingUSA() {
$totalShipping = 0;
if (true && (((isset($_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_country'])?$_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_country']:"") == "US"))) {
$totalShipping += 9.5;//Result
}
return WA_eCart_FormatNumber($totalShipping, $this->ForceDecimalsC, $this->DecimalPlacesC);
}
//eCart Rule

can you zip and upload your checkout and confirm pages ?

do you have a link ?

thanks

Craig,
Checkout and confirm pages,
Site is on my local puter.
Johnnie

Hmm.

Well the code looks ok, I can't see anything obvious.

I compared it to something similar I did a while ago, and there are no glaring errors.

Let me clarify, if you choose GB for shipping, you get the shipping displayed in the shipping section of the confirm page, but if you choose France or US, it is not displayed?


Only anomaly i did find is that the session you have chosen is for the billing country, NOT the shipping country, which could be the cause of your problem

Craig,
I've changed/added shipping_country into the mix and same occurrs, everything still correct at paypal and saved on my database orders/details. But still only shows on confirm.php if GB is selected. Ignoring the "shippingEurope" & "shippingUSA" below.
If I swap them around it will show whichever is first of the three..

From ecart1_PHP.php
//Shipping
$this->Shipping[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("ShippingGB"), true, "WAEC_eCart1_ShippingGB");
$this->Shipping[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("ShippingEurope"), true, "WAEC_eCart1_ShippingEurope");
$this->Shipping[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("ShippingUSA"), true, "WAEC_eCart1_ShippingUSA");
}
//end node

Do I need to create a new rule/definition for Europe & USA in the eCart1/definitions files?
Johnnie

send a link where i can see this in the browser please.

a link would really help.

the session must be set correctly if paypal is processing the correct values.

i even tried copying your code onto a test page, and it works !

have you tried to echo the session value on the confirm page

Well I've just spent a silly amount of time unsuccesfully trying to get all this onto a server you can see! I will post back when it's running!
I'm away now untill the 12th Oct.
Thanks for time thus far.
Johnnie