Topic awaiting preservation: How to implement UPS and Paypal with php?

I've been delving lightly into php lately, which really seems sort of lightweight and easy enough to use for the lighter stuff. I know my server supports it, I already tested that out.

I'm not sure, as for the UPS Shipping tables, if I need to use the xml or the html interface. My main problem is, unless I can convince my father (I'm doing the site for him) to just get a e-business account on his server, I need to use PayPal for the money exchange. Now, PayPal doesn't really offer accurate shipping costs...you can add a certain price to each over one part, but that's not very accurate. I have all the parts weighed out, packaging included, so I need to plug all that in when the user presses the "Order Now!" button into the UPS system. Then, I need to get the costs from that, and pass that on the the paypal payment. The PayPal part is really quite easy. Its just getting there that isn't.

Anyone have any advice on doing this? I guess the most obvious is just pay for an e-business shopping cart service, eh? The only problem I've seen with that is the un-flexible shipping costs calculations....hmmm...

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The best answer I can give is to use the Digital Mayhem intershipper class

Intershipper is a realtime shipping charge lookup site. (really cool) That actually works with a bunch of carriers

This class will in realtime get the shipping charges for you so it doesn't have to be updated. If you choose to use multiple carriers it takes care of that in one go too.

Tricks are that it may be more than you need right now and you have to be comfortable using classes (if you're not this may be a great time to learn

This is how I did it for the e-commerce site I set up.






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-->The best answer I can give is to use the Digital Mayhem intershipper class
-->Intershipper is a realtime shipping charge lookup site. (really cool) That actually works with a bunch of carriers

Ok, Ill check out the site...but does it give shipping for UPS? (I guess I'll find out...)

-->This class will in realtime get the shipping charges for you so it doesn't have to be updated. If you choose to -->use multiple carriers it takes care of that in one go too.
-->Tricks are that it may be more than you need right now and you have to be comfortable using classes (if -->you're >not this may be a great time to learn

I have no idea what a class is, actually. Well, actually, I know what it is for Java...is that what your talking about?

That's a PHP class, but it's pretty much the same thing as in every other OO programming language...

yep it does UPS and many others.

The code itself just needs to be included and then the Usage is on that page. It's pretty sttraight forward to actually use.



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yep it does UPS and many others.

The code itself just needs to be included and then the Usage is on that page. It's pretty sttraight forward to actually use.
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Yeah, it seems pretty straightforward and simple. Thanks a lot. Looks easier than trying to figure out the documentation for UPS's tools. Umm, what site did you use this for? If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to check out how you did it....just for reference....

I used it on www.fixturesandfaucets.com

but that won't help you too much that's a full featured shop built on the phpshop They implemeted this class into the whole deal.




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[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 02-11-2002).]