Shipping question

[julia_peculiar]

I seem to be reading this forum to death since installing OsCommerce a couple of days ago, during which time I came across a question somewhere from somebody asking what units of weight OsCommerce uses for shipping. 'Whatever you want', was the response. This seemed logical enough to me (provided that you use the same unit throughout!).

 

Alas, my logic usually has holes in it the size of which you can drive a tank through, and this case was no exception. Tonight, I finished writing my shipping tables and then found that at the checkout next to the order weight was written '(lbs)'. How can I show (kgs) instead? I have tried to hunt down the origin of (lbs) so that I can change it, but with no success. I hope someone can help me locate it, because (lbs) tracking sniffer dogs aren't cheap to come by :) Thanks.

[boxtel]

I seem to be reading this forum to death since installing OsCommerce a couple of days ago, during which time I came across a question somewhere from somebody asking what units of weight OsCommerce uses for shipping. 'Whatever you want', was the response. This seemed logical enough to me (provided that you use the same unit throughout!).

 

Alas, my logic usually has holes in it the size of which you can drive a tank through, and this case was no exception. Tonight, I finished writing my shipping tables and then found that at the checkout next to the order weight was written '(lbs)'. How can I show (kgs) instead? I have tried to hunt down the origin of (lbs) so that I can change it, but with no success. I hope someone can help me locate it, because (lbs) tracking sniffer dogs aren't cheap to come by :) Thanks.

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that is simple text defined in the language file for that module.

 

so go to includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/

 

and open the relevant language file and change lbs to Kg.

 

something like this :

 

define('MODULE_SHIPPING_ZONES_TEXT_UNITS', 'lb(s)');

 

to

 

define('MODULE_SHIPPING_ZONES_TEXT_UNITS', 'Kg');

[julia_peculiar]

That worked beautifully (like I'm telling you something you *don't* know :).

 

OsCommerce offers a reasonably steep learning curve when you've never dabbled with much more than a site comprising your own simple HTML. Thanks for the leg-up - you're a star :)

[boxtel]

That worked beautifully (like I'm telling you something you *don't* know :).

 

OsCommerce offers a reasonably steep learning curve when you've never dabbled with much more than a site comprising your own simple HTML. Thanks for the leg-up - you're a star :)

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just remember, anything displayed which could be language dependant is sure to be found in the language files.

 

Look at what the page filename is that you are looking at and 80% of the time the relevant language file has the same name.