Showing an information box on checkout_confirmation.php - How to do that?

[heranke]

Dear Community,

 

[Description]

Since changes in law from 08/2012 there is the need to show information about tax and duty-regulations IF (AND ONLY IF) the customers is sitting outside the EU and want to ship it there. (See http://www.haendlerbund.de/hinweisblaetter/finish/1-hinweisblaetter/99-button-loesung.pdf)

 

Showing an information box on checkout_confirmation.php isnt a problem but:

Since it shoud only show up if the customers shipping adress is Non-EU I need an if(customer is NON-EU)-clause.

Alternatively an if(total_tax>0)-clause should work either.

 

[Question]

I am searching a variable to make the show-up-information-box depend from shipping adress or total-tax that can be used within checkout_confirmation.php.

 

Any ideas?

 

Regards

heranke

 

Here is what I got (~/catalog/checkout_confirmation.php). Yes, there are XXX.

 

<?php
if (XXX){
echo '	 <tr>' .
 '	 <td valign="top"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">' .
 '		 <tr>' . "\n" .
 '		 <td>' . TEXT_ORDER_TAX_HINT . '</td>' . "\n" .
 '		 </tr>' . "\n" .	
 '	 </table></td>' .
 '	 </tr>';
}
?>

[multimixer]

Create a zone, add all EU countries to it and check against this zone

[heranke]

Zone for EU is implemented. No trouble with tax calcs.

 

Which variable do I have to use for check against zone? This is the point I need help.

 

[information] If the customers is within EU taxes are positiv and shown.

 

I looked at ot_tax.php, ot_total.php, order.php, order_total.php even checkout_process.php assuming it should be there. And I tried different variables with no success for now.

[Chris H]

My own solution, to a similar problem, was to create a column called 'zone' in the countries table. Some of the entries, in the column, are 'EU' and some are not.

 

$query =

' SELECT zone
FROM ' . TABLE_COUNTRIES .
' WHERE countries_id = ' . $order->delivery['country']['id']
;
$result = mysql_query($query);

if ($result) {
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
}

 

So your

 

if (XXX){

 

is then

 

if ($row[0] != 'EU'){

 

For the archive, I don't believe that this law has been ratified in all EU countries. Or even in most of them.

[heranke]

Thanx Chris for your reply.

 

At first sight this solution should do the job. I will have a try and report back.

 

Since all means should be on board with osc stock functions there should be a simpler solution.

 

I imagine there are to ways:

1. direct way: Looking for the country the customer is sitting. if(country!=EU){show info}

2. indirect way: Looking for the calculated taxes. Assuming it has positive value in case of EU, and zero value otherwise. if(taxes==0){show info}.

 

The first way should be preferred.

 

What I am wondering is, if i add some products to the cart and do the checkout until checkout_confirmation.php it shows the calculated taxes correctly.

 

checkout_confirmation.php shows

 

<?php
 if (MODULE_ORDER_TOTAL_INSTALLED) {
   echo $order_total_modules->output();
 }
?>

 

Since total values are encapsuled within output() I cant reach the variable for the tax. Is there a way to break it down again?

I am not that familiar with the totalling modules yet. I guess this is beeing calculated in ot_tax.php?

 

Is there a guide for the totalling mechanism?

 

For the archive: Implementing this for sure and be on the bright side.

[heranke]

Ok, found $order->info['tax'] is showing the amount of taxes.

 

And the following code works so far:

 

 if ($order->info['tax']==0){
  echo '	 <tr>' .
 '	    <td valign="top"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">' .  
 '		  <tr>' . "\n" .
 '		    <td>' . TEXT_ORDER_TAX_HINT . '</td>' . "\n" .
 '		  </tr>' . "\n" .	
 '	    </table></td>' .
 '	  </tr>';
 }

 

Any ideas to achieve this by the 1st preferred way?

 

Regards

heranke