Add Package Weight to USPS Shipping

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.0
-- Joomla version -- : 2.5.19
-- PHP version -- : 5.4

Is there any way to add a package weight to the USPS shipping plugin in in the same way that you can add an extra price in the shipping method?

I can get three products in the same rigid envelope so I do not want to add the weight of the envelope to the product. I would like to add the weight of the envelope to a USPS shipping method with a quantity restriction of 1 to 3 products. And then create another one with quantity restrictions of 4-6 and so on.

I would be willing to add a php hack to the plugin knowing that this would have to be done with each upgrade.

I thought about an automatic coupon taking the price of the package off of the cart if they bout three products but I have different size rigid envelopes with different weights.

I hope this makes sense. Any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you!!! This worked great!!!

But I had to put the first code somewhere else since there was no plugins/hikashopshipping/usps/usps_configuration.php file.
I put it at line 139 in the administrator/components/com_hikashop/views/plugins/tmpl/form.php file and surrounded it with table tags.

<td class="key">
Add weight:
</td>
<td>
<input size="5" type="text" name="data[shipping][shipping_params][weight_approximation]" value="<?php echo @$this->element->shipping_params->weight_approximation; ?>" />
</td>
</tr>

Thank you! I did not realize you could modify the plugin that way.

Which files must be edited with which code to make this work properly?

Thank you for the clarification. Worked perfectly.

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.6
-- PHP version -- : 5.5.17

I started this thread awhile ago and you were are great help. Now with Hikashop 2.3.5 I cannot get this code to work. Your help would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much!!!!!

I just installed Hikashop 2.6.1 and when I went to the usps.php file to change the code
$parcel->Weight=$package_weight;
to
$parcel->Weight=$package_weight+$rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation;

I noticed that the code was different and that there are two lines of it.
$parcel->Weight = round($packages, 2);

How do I make this change with the new code.

Thanks for your help.

Thank you that worked! However I miss copied the code so:

$parcel->Weight = round($package['w'], 2);

$parcel->Weight = round($package['w']+$rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation, 2);

Joomla
HikaShop Business 4.4.3 [2106041726]
I have been having problems implementing the above code. First thing I see the field that you were adding to the form is already in this version but as "Weight approximation (%)" field, under Specific Configuration. I tried changing the field name to weight_add in both the form field and the usps.php file. No luck. Did the field need to be declared somewhere? I saw another spot in the usps.php file where you added the product weight + product weight * weight_approximation. Tried adding in my weight_add field with out luck.

Can you help me add a package weight to USPS? Thanks

Hello,

Yes the "Weight approximation" option was added to the plugin for every customers.

Firstly, can you give us more information about what you want to achieve ? Do you want to add an option to your USPS configuration page which will add a fixed weight for every orders ?

Kind regards,
Mohamed

Yes,

Just adding a fixed weight to each order.

thanks,
DAvid DeWitt

Hello David,

In that case the solution will be to edit the file "plugins\hikashopshipping\usps/usps.php" and :
1. add that line :

'weight_approximation_fixed' => array('Weight approximation', 'input'),

'weight_approximation' => array('Weight approximation (%)', 'input'),

if (!empty($rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation_fixed)) {
	if (isset($product->product_weight)) $product->product_weight = round($product->product_weight + (float)$rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation_fixed, 2);
	if (isset($product->product_weight_orig)) $product->product_weight_orig = round($product->product_weight_orig + (float)$rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation_fixed, 2);
}

if (!empty($rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation)) {
	if (isset($product->product_weight)) $product->product_weight = $product->product_weight + $product->product_weight * $rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation / 100;
	if (isset($product->product_weight_orig)) $product->product_weight_orig = $product->product_weight_orig + $product->product_weight_orig * $rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation / 100;
}

if (!empty($rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation_fixed)) {
	if (isset($variant->product_weight)) $variant->product_weight = round($variant->product_weight + (float)$rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation_fixed, 2);
	if (isset($variant->product_weight_orig)) $variant->product_weight_orig = round($variant->product_weight_orig + (float)$rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation_fixed, 2);
}

if (!empty($rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation)) {
	if (isset($variant->product_weight)) $variant->product_weight = $variant->product_weight + $variant->product_weight * $rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation / 100;
	if (isset($variant->product_weight_orig)) $variant->product_weight_orig = $variant->product_weight_orig + $variant->product_weight_orig * $rate->shipping_params->weight_approximation / 100;
}

In what weight will this add? lb, oz, gr, kg ??
Thanks
davvid