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Hello all,
I have uploaded the latest version of my Australian extension to Magento Connect:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/141/fontis-australia-extension
The biggest change is support for Paymate payments, which was requested by a few people. Currently this method uses the Paymate test account by default but this can be changed in the configuration. Also, there is a bug upon returning to the store where the customer is returned to an empty shopping cart rather than the checkout success page. I am currently working on this issue, as well as a few ways to make the store operator’s life easier. 
I have also changed around the directory structure of the rest of the payment and shipping methods and added a few minor bug fixes and the like.
As always, feedback would be greatly appreciated!
1koyan posted Wed, July 2, 2008
Hey Chris,
Wanted to say a thanks for contributing this very helpful extention to the au community. I installed it recently with no dramas.
I found a minor bug, well what appears to be a bug anyway!
The states / regions work perfectly throughout the order process, and also with the shipping tables.
However when an order is placed, the state / region does not appear in the transactional emails, and in the admin orders area i.e. viewing invoice. The rest of the address is present, but no State.
I had a look at the table ‘mage_directory_country_region_name’ and noticed that the au states were not appended to the end of this table like they are in ‘mage_directory_country_region’ (182-189). I added these states to the ‘mage_directory_country_region_name and the states now show up in my orders!
I look forward to the next release
2Chris Norton posted Wed, July 2, 2008
Hi koyan, thanks for the feedback!
Yes, I am aware of this issue and the solution, the only reason I didn’t upload it straight away is that it requires a bit more work to be generalised than the directory_country_region table did. It will be definitely be available in the next release.
3koyan posted Wed, July 2, 2008
Thanks Chris,
Can you see any problems with what i did, i.e. adding au regions to the other table?
And when do you anticipate the next release will be available?
4Chris Norton posted Wed, July 2, 2008
I can’t see any problem with it at all - I believe that’s exactly what is required.
The only thing for the extension is that the directory_country_region_name table uses the region_id values from the directory_country_region table so I can’t just use some “dumb” queries to insert the information. When doing this manually it’s simple to do but the extension will need to do some initial queries to determine the state of the tables before inserting data.
I expect I could have the next version up over the weekend, depending on how much spare time I manage to find.
5Chris Norton posted Sat, July 5, 2008
0.7.1 release is up which includes some improved insertion queries to fix the previous issue with state names.