New Carrier/Shipping Constraints/Methods

[cmroanirgo]

Hi,

I'm new to Prestashop, and have been looking at the way shipping works, and for my business needs, it just isn't working very well.

To be clear, I've already hacked in a distance module that works using `getOrderShippingCostExternal` and `getOrderShippingCost`. However, the settings to get this to work are stored in the module's configuration page, when ideally, it would be better implemented as a new shipping_method as defined in Carrier.php, so that multiple carriers with these alternate ranges (time/ number of pieces/  distance, etc, etc) can be defined.

To be more clear, in Carrier.php there's a lot of hard coded uses of shipping by weight, or by price. How do I go about overriding ALL of this so that I can add a new shipping_method (SHIPPING_METHOD_NUMBER_TIME/ SHIPPING_METHOD_NUMBER_OF_ITEMS)? The DB structure is fine as it is....it's only the php that's limiting me.

It seems that the Carrier is always created using `new Carrier` rather than using a factory, so I'm a little at a loss on how I can sublass / instantiate modifications. (ideally it'd be great if `new Carrier` throughout the core code was replaced by `Context::getFactory('Carrier')->create()` or some such thing)

I'm hoping I've missed something because I'm new...any suggestions?

Cheers,

Craig

 

[cmroanirgo]

bump. Any ideas? Suggestions?