[ic] $Tag->total_cost Giving Spurious Result?

[interchange at tvcables.co.uk]

Quoting Mike Heins <mike at perusion.com>:

> Quoting interchange at tvcables.co.uk (interchange at tvcables.co.uk):
> > Quoting Stefan Hornburg <racke at linuxia.de>:
> >
> > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:36:02 -0600
> > > interchange at tvcables.co.uk wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > > Running IC 5.2.0 and the total_cost tag in perl is giving me spurious
> > > results,
> > > > it seems to be *sometimes* (50/50) not adding the shipping value.
> > > [total-cost]
> > > > always returns the correct total cost its just when using it in perl.
> Here
> > > is
> > > > the snippet of code, can anyone suggest why this does not always give
> the
> > > > correct total cost.
> > > >
> > > > [perl]
> > > > my $price = $Tag->total_cost({noformat => 1,});
> > > > $Scratch->{new-total} = sprintf("%.2f", $price);
> > > > [/perl]
> > >
> > > Maybe total_cost tries to access a database table and isn't allowed to do
> so.
> > >
> > > Bye
> > > 	Racke
> > >
> >
> > Hi Racke,
> >
> > Maybe but would it sometimes work if that was the case, I find that for
> some
> > shipping methods it gives the correct amount for others it doesn't. It may
> not
> > be specifically linked to a shipping method but be something to do with the
> > value of the shipping.
>
> Stefan was giving you a hint that you likely need to pass a table
> name in [perl tables="sometable othertable"].
>
> It would work *some* of the time because you may have previously opened
> the table in some pages. If you have not opened the table previously,
> and total-cost uses a table  -- it is almost for sure to use products --
> then it will fail.
>

Hi Mike et al,

Well I tried [perl tables .....] and that doesn't fix it either, what is really
stange is that for 3 of my 6 UK shipping methods it reports the cost correctly
but for the other 3 it is different by the shipping amount, ie the shipping is
not added to total_cost. [total-cost] reports correctly for all shipping modes
though....

Any more ideas?

Thanks,
Andy.


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