Detecting when there are no shipping methods available

Hello.

You could check shipping country with the code bellow and add a conditional in case it’s not your country

WC()->customer->get_shipping_country()

Other way would be to check the cart items and get the shipping from it using the function bellow

WC()->shipping->calculate_shipping( $package )

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Unfortunately, we also need to exclude from shipping a couple of specific provinces from my country, so the first method isn’t 100% accurate. (I forgot to mention this in my first post).

I am looking at the methods available in “WC_Order” (https://wp-kama.com/plugin/woocommerce/function/WC_Order), and I wonder: which one should I use to get the specific province in my country? get_shipping_postcode()? get_shipping_state()?

As for calculate_shipping(), correct me if I’m wrong, but from the docs and the code samples I’ve read, my impression is that it’s a function to add shipping rates if you are programming your own shipping method (from https://woocommerce.com/document/shipping-method-api/). What does it return if there are no shipping methods available?(*) How do I check its return value?

(*) As mentioned above, my idea is to create a shipping zone for all the places we don’t ship for, and leave it without any shipping methods.

Hi @pauljbis

This is a fairly complex development topic. I’m going to leave it open for a bit to see if anyone is able to chime in to help you out.

I can also recommend the WooCommerce Developer Resources Portal for resources on developing for WooCommerce.

You can also visit the WooCommerce Facebook group or the #developers channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack.

Okay, I was an idiot and didn’t realize that there are already filters for this case:

woocommerce_cart_no_shipping_available_html
woocommerce_no_shipping_available_html

Now all I need is to know how to remove the existing payment gateways from the coe executed in that filter.

Okay, I finally found an answer elsewhere. To make a long story short: you need to create a global variable to allow the code in both filters, woocommerce_no_shipping_available_html and woocommerce_available_payment_gateways, to communicate with each other.

Since creating global variables is considered bad practice, I created a class using the singleton pattern, which holds a variable saying if there are shipping methods or not.

if( ! class_exists('Vuelamedia_EstadoGlobal')) {
	class Vuelamedia_EstadoGlobal {
		private $hayMetodoDeEnvio;
		private static $instance;
		
		private function __construct() {
			$this->hayMetodoDeEnvio=true;
			}
	
	    public static function getInstance() {
        	if(is_null(self::$instance)) {
                self::$instance = new self();
         	   }
            return self::$instance;
        	}

		public function guardaValor($valor=TRUE) {
			$this->hayMetodoDeEnvio = $valor;
			}
			
		public function leeSiHayMetodoDeEnvio() {
			return $this->hayMetodoDeEnvio;
			}
		}
	}

add_filter("woocommerce_no_shipping_available_html", "quitar_formas_de_pago", 20);
add_filter("woocommerce_cart_no_shipping_available_html", "quitar_formas_de_pago", 20);

function quitar_formas_de_pago($texto) {

	Vuelamedia_EstadoGlobal::getInstance()->guardaValor(false);
	return $texto;
	}

add_filter("woocommerce_available_payment_gateways", "filtrar_formas_de_pago");
function filtrar_formas_de_pago($available_gateways) {
   if( is_admin() ) { return $available_gateways; }
   
   $metodo = Vuelamedia_EstadoGlobal::getInstance()->leeSiHayMetodoDeEnvio();

	if (!$metodo) {
		return array();
		}
	else { return $available_gateways; }
	}