The latest version of the Australia extension, 0.6.0 in my arbitrary number scheme, was uploaded to Magento Connect this morning. The major change for this version was the inclusion of a Paymate payment method. There were also numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
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I am having some issues with the Magento translation tool - mostly that it doesn’t allow for version 1.0 translations - so I am posting this unofficial translation here. It’s fairly complete spelling-wise and is only lacking a look over for grammatical changes and places where entirely different words are used, rather than just a spelling change. An example that springs to mind is “State/Province” possibly being changed to “State/Territory”.
I discovered a few flaws in my Magento Australia module, all of which were due to my own silliness. It’s funny how bugs tend to pop up in the simplest of places due to the developer missing them while he concentrates on the more advanced stuff.
I got BPAY working last night and have added it, as well as the direct deposit functionality created previously, to the Australia module page on the Fontis site. Hopefully the instructions are clear enough: the module as a whole is started to get more complicated now that I had to start defining custom template files.
To go along with my previous post on how to enable the en_AU locale in Magento, here is my unofficial, incomplete translation for said locale: en_au.zip. To install, simply unzip it to app/locale/ alongside the existing en_US locale directory.
Please note that this is incomplete - I haven’t made changes to things like “Zip Code” for example.
I have requested an official Australian locale and translation be added so hopefully I can move some of these changes across to the core soon, maybe for inclusion in the next version of Magento?
I have completed the first part of a new module for the open source ecommerce software Magento which aims to add in a bunch of additional functionality specific for Australia. You can find the module, along with installation instructions at the Fontis Magento project page.