Add shipping settings as a seperate admin menu

There are lots of plugin tutorials out there for creating option screens – you’d just need to use the same option names WooCommerces uses to store this information.

hi mike,
i already created the menu page but couldn’t get the fields to show up. can you simply give me an example.Currently my code is as follows.

<?php
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
    exit; // Exit if accessed directly
}
// Hook for adding admin menus
add_action('admin_menu', 'mt_add_pages');

// action function for above hook
function mt_add_pages() {
   add_menu_page(__('TNT Settings','menu-test'), __('TNT Settings','tnt-shipping'), 'manage_options', 'tnt_Settings', 'tnt_Settings_page',plugins_url('liftingOnlineShipping/assests/images/menu-icon.png'), 150 );
}

// mt_toplevel_page() displays the page content for the custom Test Toplevel menu
function tnt_Settings_page() {
    echo "<h2>" . __( 'TNT Settings', 'tnt-shipping' ) . "</h2>";
	//must check that the user has the required capability
    if (!current_user_can('manage_options'))
    {
      wp_die( __('You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.') );
    }
	function init() {
					// Load the settings API
					$this->init_form_fields(); // This is part of the settings API. Override the method to add your own settings
					$this->init_settings(); // This is part of the settings API. Loads settings you previously init.
					// Define user set variables
					$this->password		= $this->get_option('Password');
					$this->username		= $this->get_option('User Name');
					$this->acntno		= $this->get_option('Account No');
					$this->shippingfrom	= $this->get_option('shippingfrom');
					$this->shippingpost	=$this->get_option('shippingpost');
					$this->shippingcountry=$this->get_option('shippingcountry');
					$this->shippingstate= $this->get_option('shippingstate');
					$this->title        = $this->get_option( 'title' );
					$this->availability = $this->get_option( 'availability' );
					$this->countries    = $this->get_option( 'countries' );
					$this->tax_status   = $this->get_option( 'tax_status' );
					$this->cost         = $this->get_option( 'cost' );
					$this->type         = $this->get_option( 'type', 'class' );
					$this->options      = $this->get_option( 'options', false );

				}
	function init_form_fields() {
					$this->form_fields = include( dirname(__FILE__).'/'.'includes/settings-flat-rate.php' );
	}

}

I suggest you don’t bother at all with the shipping classes in wc – just have your OWN form fields and update the option for the shipping method’s settings. This is just an array of option names and values stored in a single option.

hi thanks for quick reply,
the thing is i added my own form to this page as you said. i’ve already created my option values and they can be changed by going to woocommerce->settings->shipping->my shippin method.but my concern is show them in a different menu page so if i need to update the fields i can do it via this menu page(feels its easy for the client and safer).how to call their values to my page.if i need to show get_option(‘password’) it gives me null value is there any prefixes i need to use?? like get_option(‘woocommerce_lftonline__rate_reg_username’).I tried like this but still failed to load the value to the text box.

function tnt_Settings_page() {

    //must check that the user has the required capability
    if (!current_user_can('manage_options'))
    {
      wp_die( __('You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.') );
    }

    // variables for the field and option names
    $opt_name = 'woocommerce_lftonline__rate_reg_username';
    $hidden_field_name = 'mt_submit_hidden';
    $data_field_name = 'woocommerce_lftonline__rate_reg_username';

    // Read in existing option value from database
    $opt_val = get_option( $opt_name );

    // See if the user has posted us some information
    if( isset($_POST[ $hidden_field_name ]) && $_POST[ $hidden_field_name ] == 'Y' ) {
        // Read their posted value
        $opt_val = $_POST[ $data_field_name ];

        // Save the posted value in the database
        update_option( $opt_name, $opt_val );

        // Put a "settings saved" message on the screen

?>
<div class="updated"><p><strong><?php _e('settings saved.', 'tnt-shipping' ); ?></strong></p></div>
<?php

    }

    // Now display the settings editing screen

    echo '<div class="wrap">';

    // header

    echo "<h2>" . _e( 'TNT Settings', 'tnt-shipping' ) . "</h2>";

    // settings form

    ?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo $hidden_field_name; ?>" value="Y">

<p><?php _e("Your User Name:", 'tnt-shipping' ); ?>
<input type="text" name="<?php echo $data_field_name; ?>" id="<?php echo $data_field_name; ?>" value="<?php echo $opt_val; ?>" size="20">
</p><hr />

<p class="submit">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Save Changes') ?>" />
</p>

</form>
</div>

<?php

    }

    // Now display the settings editing screen

    echo '<div class="wrap">';

    // header

    echo "<h2>" . __( 'TNT Settings', 'tnt-shipping' ) . "</h2>";

    // settings form

    ?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo $hidden_field_name; ?>" value="Y">

<p><?php _e("Your User Name:", 'tnt-shipping' ); ?>
<input type="text" name="<?php echo $data_field_name; ?>" id="<?php echo $data_field_name; ?>" value="<?php echo $opt_val; ?>" size="20">
</p><hr />

<p class="submit">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Save Changes') ?>" />
</p>

</form>
</div>

<?php

}

Shipping settings are stored in for example, woocommerce_flat_rate_settings. It’s serialised.

hi Mike,
thanks for your guidance. achieved it!
had to write a function to update the values this was just a test hope this will be helpful if anyone needed to get this done.

function tnt_admin_notices() {
	echo "<div id='notice' class='updated fade'><p>You need to configure your TNT Settings</p></div>\n";
}
// mt_settings_page() displays the page content for the Test Settings submenu
function tnt_Settings_page() {

    //must check that the user has the required capability
    if (!current_user_can('manage_options'))
    {
      wp_die( __('You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.') );
    }

	$lifting_rate_settings	= maybe_unserialize( get_option( 'woocommerce_lftonline_settings' ) );
	mail('[email protected]','wait',print_r($lifting_rate_settings,true));
    // variables for the field and option names
    $opt_name = $lifting_rate_settings['username'];
	//echo $opt_name."hi";
    $hidden_field_name = 'mt_submit_hidden';
    $data_field_name = 'woocommerce_lftonline_username';

    // Read in existing option value from database
    //$opt_val = get_option( $opt_name );
    $opt_val = $opt_name;

    // See if the user has posted us some information
    // If they did, this hidden field will be set to 'Y'
    if( isset($_POST[ $hidden_field_name ]) && $_POST[ $hidden_field_name ] == 'Y' ) {
        // Read their posted value
        $opt_val = $_POST[ $data_field_name ];

        // Save the posted value in the database
        update_option( $data_field_name, $opt_val );
		alt_update_option('username',$opt_val,'woocommerce_lftonline_settings');

        // Put a "settings saved" message on the screen

?>
<div class="updated"><p><strong><?php _e('settings saved.', 'tnt-shipping' ); ?></strong></p></div>
<?php

    }

    // Now display the settings editing screen

    echo '<div class="wrap">';

    // header

    echo "<h2>" . __( 'TNT Settings', 'tnt-shipping' ) . "</h2>";

    // settings form

    ?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo $hidden_field_name; ?>" value="Y">

<p><?php _e("Your User Name:", 'tnt-shipping' ); ?>
<input type="text" name="<?php echo $data_field_name; ?>" id="<?php echo $data_field_name; ?>" value="<?php echo $opt_val; ?>" size="20">
</p><hr />

<p class="submit">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" class="button-primary" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Save Changes') ?>" />
</p>

</form>
</div>

<?php

}
//update serialized data
function alt_update_option($opt_key,$opt_val,$opt_group){
    // get options-data as it exists before update
	$options	= maybe_unserialize( get_option( $opt_group ) );

    // update it
    $options[$opt_key] = $opt_val;
    // store updated data
    update_option($opt_group,$options);
}

oh! some lines there are only for testing.mail and print_r not needed!