working with table rates and zones

[SuperSewist]

I'm back at the shipping thing again. Through the forums here, I found a fast way to set up the tax/shipping zones at http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3404. Now I have three zones: lower US, outlying US, and Canada, each with the full complement of allowed states/provinces. Later I'll add "rest of the world".

 

step 2, I copied the shipping module table.php (both parts) and adjusted for the two new zones. I've done this before for my wholesale customers who get different shipping rates and it works great. Now I have lower48table.php, outlyingtable.php, and canadatable.php. Through admin, install each, set each shipping table to its correct zone and filled in the table rate. all good, so far.

 

But of course - - - :(

 

the only one that appears to work as expected is lowertable. When I pretend to be someone from Alaska or Canada, no shipping option shows at all. All the shipping table files are identical except for the one word that tells them apart (throughout). Any clues where to start trouble shooting? I've already read through 6 months of forums posts on shipping/zones/table etc.

[SuperSewist]

Here's an update: When I set the allowed shipping module for a Canadian address to canadatable.php ( have SPPC), it works perfect. But it doesn't grab it automatically on default shipping. Maybe I don't understand the zones thing. I followed the instructions posted elsewhere here. It appears I have them set correctly, or an AK/HI order would have regular shipping info, but there's none, so that says to me 'since AK is not in the table lower48.php, don't use that table'. so that part appears correct.

 

I don't see anything in SPPC that would cause this, it just has a pre-process to check for special shipping options, and if none are found, processes the shipping as in a fresh install.

 

Any clues for me yet? I'll cross post to SPPC just in case.