[ic] Interchange6 Shipping Draft

Stefan Hornburg (Racke) racke at linuxia.de
Fri Mar 7 22:50:16 UTC 2014


On 03/07/2014 11:46 PM, Lyn St George wrote:
> On 07/03/2014 21:56, Sam Batschelet wrote:
>> Here is my draft for schema changes and additions for shipping support.  Comments welcome.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/sbatschelet/9197124
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Sam
> 
> Sam, I'm not sure if any of my shipping stuff will fit in with what you
> probably have in mind here, but you're welcome to use any bits that
> might be useful.
> 
> To summarise what I have:
> 
> a shipping() sub which is called either directly by the customer to
> estimate shipping costs, or as part of the order() sub to get the basket
> totals. This reads shipmodes from the country table (I'm using an IC5 db
> here) and for each shipmode it looks up a 'shipping' table to find the
> shipper. It then instantiates a new Business::OfflineShipping::$shipper
> class, finds the rate and pushes it onto an @shippinglist array which is
> displayed to the customer. Either the selected rate or the first rate
> (as default) is used by order() for calculating totals.
> 
> Currently I'm only using USPS, UPS and the RoyalMail so haven't bothered
> with any other shippers, and have just noticed that I haven't yet done
> UPS tables for shipping outside the US (because I'm only using UPS
> within the US). There also needs to be some mechanism added for choosing
> online lookups when offline proves impractical.
> 
> If you like I'll make a quick package of the modules and the shipping()
> sub and put it on kiwi.zolotek.net

Yes, that would be really useful to us.

Any chance using Git + GitHub? 8-)

Thanks
	Racke


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