Hide shipping method name and title from frontend

Question

In front end on checkout page in shipment section shipping methods and name appears in bracket along with shipping and handling.

Now it looks like Shipping & Handling (title - method name): 5$

I want look like Shipping & Handling: 5$

Kindly help..

Answer 1

You can override the method: Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address_Total_Shipping::fetch(). Inside it, there is this piece of code:

$title = Mage::helper('sales')->__('Shipping & Handling');
if ($address->getShippingDescription()) {
    $title .= ' (' . $address->getShippingDescription() . ')';
}

You can comment out the if statement and not show the shipping description.

Answer 2

You can simply do that by going to System->Configuration->Shipping Method and delete the description text.

it won't show the description text. You do not need to edit any code for this.

Answer 3

You can hide shipping method from front end with observer, write this code in config.xml

<frontend>
<events>
    <sales_quote_collect_totals_before>
        <observers>
            <frontend_shipping_rates_sales_quote_collect_totals_before>
                <class>yourmodule/observer</class>
                <method>hideShippingMethods</method>                    
            </frontend_shipping_rates_sales_quote_collect_totals_before>
        </observers>                
    </sales_quote_collect_totals_before>
</events>

Second in Observer.php use this code

public function hideShippingMethods( Varien_Event_Observer $observer )
{
    if (Mage::getDesign()->getArea() ===   Mage_Core_Model_App_Area::AREA_FRONTEND)
    {
        $quote              = $observer->getEvent()->getQuote();
        $store              = Mage::app()->getStore($quote->getStoreId());
        $carriers           = Mage::getStoreConfig('carriers', $store);

        $hiddenMethodCode   = 'freeshipping'; 

        foreach ($carriers as $carrierCode => $carrierConfig) 
        {
            if( $carrierCode ==  $hiddenMethodCode )
            {
                $store->setConfig("carriers/{$carrierCode}/active", '0');
            }
        }
}
 }