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I have copied and pasted one of the examples and changed the amount to suit what i want:

Name=Free Shipping; 250>=Amount; 0
Name=Standard; Articles>1; Amount<250; Shipping=15.00

which i think means orders over $250 have free shipping and more than one article with a order value of less than $250 will have a shipping cost of 15.00 per order.

however, this is the error message i get when checking out:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/theliteracy/www/shop5050/plugins/vmshipment/rules_shipping/rules_shipping_base.php on line 427


Can anyone help me with what i am doing wrong?

thank you

The syntax of the rule is correct, but the rule does not express what you want. In partitular, "250>=Amount" means that 250 needs to be a larger value than the bill amount, i.e. the bill amount must be smaller or equal to 250. I guess you want "250<=Amount", i.e. orders of 250$ or more.

The warning (not an error message) should be fixed in the latest version on the homepage.

Best regards,
Reinhold

I am sorry, but i do not understand. What do i put in if the shipping OVER $250 is free and under $250 is $15?

I have uploaded the latest version of the plug-in but i am still getting the warning... should i uninstall the plug in completely and reinstall?

thank you

Regarding the warning: Do you have both the basic and the advanced plugin installed? If so, have you installed the latest version of both? (Please note that the version on the homepage should have two warnings fixed, so it is different from earlier downloads of version 3.3. I didn't deem it neccessary to increase the version number for just a warning fix).
Is the warning exactly the same (i.e. is the line number still 427 with the latest version of the plugin)?

Condition for invoice amount below 250: Amount<250
Condition for invoice amount 250 and above: Amount>=250 (or 250<=Amount)

A very simple rule to understand < and > is that the side where the comparison operator is the space between the two lines of the > operator: The space between the two lines is larger on the left side, so the left side needs to be larger than the right side. With the < operator it is exactly the other way round: the space between the two lines is larger on the right side, so the value on the right side of the < needs to be larger than the value on the left side.

BTW, Uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin should not change anything about the warning (except break existing orders...)

Hi

I downloaded the free plugin (thank you)as it looks as if it will do exactly what I want - VM is fairly restricted when it comes to shipping in my opinion.

I'm fairly new to this and am trying to get my head around the syntax. I have added the following in vituemart:

Name=Delivery; weight>1 & weight<30; Shipping=50
Name=Delivery; weight>30 & weight<60; Shipping=65
Name=Delivery; weight>60 & weight<90; Shipping=90
Name=Delivery; weight>90 & weight<1000; Shipping=90

My product is a fixed weight and therefore depending on the quantity ordered the shipping charge is straightforward to calculate however I get this error when I choose "shipment method" in the front end:

Evaluation yields unknown value while evaluating rule part '1 & weight'.
Evaluation yields unknown value while evaluating rule part '30 & weight'.
Evaluation yields unknown value while evaluating rule part '60 & weight'.
Evaluation yields unknown value while evaluating rule part '90 & weight'.

I don't pretend to fully know what I'm doing so any help would be greatly appreciated and apologies if this is in the wrong topic.

Thanks

Kenny.

The & (AND) operator is available only in the advanced version. However, your rules can be slightly re-written to work with the basic (free) plugin:

Notice, however, that since you only use the "strictly less than" comparison (<), the bound will never match. So, a cart with a weight of exactly 30 will not match any of these rules (since 30 is neither strictly smaller or strictly larger than 30).
I think you rather want the <= operator for the upper bounds, i.e. orders of weight more than 1 and up to 30 kg (including 30kg) are 50 currenty units shipping costs.

Best regards,
Reinhold

Hi Reinhold

Thanks for the reply.

I spent the weekend trying to work it out and came up with the same solution. It works perfectly.

I don't need the "<= operator" as each item we ship is 25Kg so the weight will always be a multiple thereof.

If we start shipping items with different weights I'll just purchase the advanced version but as we've just started out in business the standard one will do just fine.

I appreciate your help.

Kenny.

Problem solved.