Shipping Modules?

dhs13 · July 2, 2003

I am looking for a shipping module that would work with Roadway Express and/or Conway(CCX). We ship large items with these 2 carriers. I need automate the frieght charges with our discount,round the near highest dollar and add an additional about and then show that amount to the customer.

Thanks

mgraphics · July 4, 2003

From Roadway:

We offer a rate quote hyperlink
that accesses Roadway's public rates and returns HTML.

This returns Roadway's page.

or

Roadway also offers a customer-specific rate quote API that returns an XML
data stream containing freight charges.

-if you're a paying Roadway customer

I talked to them recently and a generic (non-customer specific) XML is in the works. I tried to motivate them by telling them what a large community there was here!

dhs13 · July 4, 2003

I also contacted them and Con-Way. Maybe something will happen.

July 8, 2003

If they have a table rate sheet you can create a shipping module that will seve until the XML part is resolved

dhs13 · July 8, 2003

Here is some PHP code for Conway-ccx. It was furnished by the carrier.

Here is some sample PHP code that will execute the XML based Con-Way rating application. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you,

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<?php

// replace the "userId" & "passWd" String values with your Con-Way username and password $userId = "userId"; $passWd = "passWd";

/*

Build Rate Request

In actual use, you would probably populate the Rating Request

parameters (Weights, Classes, Zip Codes, etc.) from data submitted via an on-line order form or database. For this sample we will just hard code some dummy data. */

$rateRequest="<RateRequest>

<Item>

</Item>

<Item>

</Item>

</RateRequest>";

//Convert characters to proper format for post

$rateRequest = urlencode($rateRequest);

// open synchronous connection to X-Rate servlet

// NOTE: you must have the cURL libraries installed with PHP on your

server--

// If you need them, see your System Administrator, who can get then at

// http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

$urlConn = curl_init ("http://www.con-way.com/XMLj/X-Rate");

curl_setopt ($urlConn, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt ($urlConn, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, "Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

curl_setopt ($urlConn, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userId.":".$passWd); curl_setopt ($urlConn, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "RateRequest=".$rateRequest);

ob_start();

curl_exec($urlConn);

$rateQuote = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

/*

Parse the response

Here we simple redisplay the XML data, but in a real

world scenario you will parse the document to locate the data you wish to display

or save, such as the net charge, transit time, and disclaimer. */

$parser= xml_parser_create();

xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$rateQuote,$vals,$index);

xml_parser_free($parser);

// This function will return the value of an element given the $vals and $index arrays, // and the element name

function getElementValue($vals,$index,$elName) {

$elValue = null;

while ( list ( $keys, $values ) = each ($index)) {

if ($keys == strtoupper($elName)) {

list ( $key ) = $values;

while ( list ( $key1, $value1 ) = each

($vals[$key])) {

if ($key1 == "value") {

$elValue = $value1;

}

return $elValue;

}

// Use the above function to get the values you want, e.g. $totalCharge = getElementValue($vals,$index,"totalCharge");

echo

"<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Sample PHP for Con-Way XML Rating</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

Sample PHP Con-Way Rate Getter </CENTER> Here is the RateQuote XML output: <xmp>".$rateQuote."</xmp> Shipping Charges: ".$totalCharge ."</BODY> </HTML>"; ?>

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