X-Cart forums - No city masks in zone.

I was trying to migrate tax rates from XC4 to XC5 and discovered that I could not create zones that resolve down to city level. The option was just not there on the Zone Page.

I discovered this in Countries.php

PHP Code:


		
			
/**

     * Disable city masks field in the interface

     *

     * @return boolean

     */

    protected function isCityMasksEditEnabled()

    {

        return false;

    }

And I wonder why anyone would code this. As it was protected I could not override it with a custom module so I just decided to override the field.city.tpl in our module.

with this:

PHP Code:


		
			
{* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et: *}



{**

 * Zone: city masks template

 *

 * @author    Qualiteam software Ltd <info@x-cart.com>

 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Qualiteam software Ltd <info@x-cart.com>. All rights reserved

 * @license   [url]http://www.x-cart.com/license-agreement.html[/url] X-Cart 5 License Agreement

 * @link      [url]http://www.x-cart.com/[/url]

 *

 * @ListChild (list="zones.zone.details", weight="350")

 *}



{*<widget class="\XLite\View\FormField\Textarea\Simple" value="{zone.getZoneCities(1)}" label="City masks" rows="5" cols="70" fieldName="zone_cities" help="{t(#Zone city masks help#)}" IF="isCityMasksEditEnabled()" />*}

<widget class="\XLite\View\FormField\Textarea\Simple" value="{zone.getZoneCities(1)}" label="City masks" rows="5" cols="70" fieldName="zone_cities" help="{t(#Zone city masks help#)}" />

Removing the 'isCityMasksEditEnabled()' IF statement. At least now I can add cities back to zones.

Does anyone know a better way to re-activate cities in zones?