Re: [mv] Need more shipping help

["Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>]

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> >What I can't figure out now is how to get the quantity for a given item
> >to the subroutine too.  @@TOTAL@@ gives the total number of items in the
> >entire basket and [item-quantity] is empty.
> 
> So, I'm thinking the other items you have included in the shipping.asc 
> could actually be pulled from the GlobalSub directly, by accessing the 
> session data.  Instead of weight you would send your quantity, instead of 
> zip, you could access the state value directly.

This is the approach that I've been trying now, but it's not going
anywhere.  :(  And I was really hoping to do it with the 's' mode 
instead of 'p', but I guess I'll take anything at this point.  :)

Doing something like

   2-day   2nd day air     quantity        0       9999999 f [perl arg="sub items values"]twodays[/perl]

and having a sub like

   sub twodays {
      my $item;
      my $state = $Safe{'values'}->{state};
      my $multiplier = $minimum = $total = 0;

      if ($state =~ /^(?:OR|ID|CA|UT|NV)$/) {
         $multiplier = .20; $minimum = 10;
      } elsif ($state =~ /^AK$/) {
         $multiplier = .35; $minimum = 18;
      } else {
         $multiplier = .30; $minimum = 10;
      }

      #breaks here

      foreach $item (@{$Safe{items}}) {
         if ($item->{shipping_id} == 0) {
            $total += $item->{price};
         }
      }

      if ($total > 0) {
         return ($total * $multiplier > $minimum) ? $total * $multiplier : $minimum;
      } else {
         return 0;
      }
   }

works up to the point where it says 'breaks here'.  I can't seem to access
anything in $Safe{items}.  But I'm sure I'm doing something stupid...  :)

> Oh, and one more *really* interesting tidbit, which may or may not still 
> work.  The author mentions the ability to place a variable directive in the 
> catalog.cfg:

Now that *is* interesting...  I'll have to try that!  :)

Any thanks for the pointers...

Chris

P.S.  Once I get this darned thing working, I'll write it up and send my
      specific solution to the list.  Maybe I can save someone else all
      of this grief.  :)
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