Majides Japan Magento module with shipping and region data
32 Comments Saturday April 25, 2009The fast-growing e-commerce platform Magento has been developed in a modular fashion that allows for locale-specific enhancements and (relatively) easy plug-and-play development of custom features for a custom audience. Having launched AbiLoves… on Magento, we’re now happy to announce version 0.2.5 of our Majides Japan module.
For developers looking to support a Japanese UI and shipping options in Magento, this means domestic shipping support with the national postal system Yuu-Pack, and international shipping support with EMS. The Majides Japan module also adds Japanese region data (都道府県) with both English and Japanese localized mappings to the database, and cleans up the address format for Japanese addresses. This module also adds given-name and family-name kana-yomi fields to the database so that customers can add the hiragana reading of their kanji-character name - a very Japanese-specific feature.
If all this sounds exciting to you, please consider helping us out with a token of appreciation - such as a donation via PayPal:
To grab the module, just click here:
Majides Japan Magento module
Note that this is a local extension, and not a “Community Extension”. The main difference is their path - app/code/community vs. app/code/local . Simply unzip/tar the archive from your web-root, and the files should go where they’re supposed to. So:
$ cd /path/to/html/ $ tar -xvzf Majides_Japan.tgz
Enjoy!
Many thanks for this. Looks very promising.
Uploaded the files provided above and can see the settings for EMS and Yuu-pack under ADMIN
System > Configuration > Shipping Methods
...but no sign of the region data and address format showing up on the customer frontend (i.e. checkout page). Should there not be some template files included in the above zip file, such as…
/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml
Thanks for making this available. Am sure many will appreciate it.