[ic] Preparing Orders

[Caleb Phillips]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 18:38, Michael Stearne wrote:
> I would use 
> UPS's WorldShip program, but it is a Windows GUI application.  I would, 
> one, like to not rely on a Windows workstation and, two, do everything 
> transparently to the worker.
> 
> The idea is to have 2 buttons on a view order page.
> 
> One button that says "Print shipping label for this order".  That would 
> call an external Perl script, make the interaction with the XML 
> interface to UPS, parse the returned data,create a PDF, and send the PDF 
> to the printer via lpr.  
> 
> The second button would also call an external script, query the DB for 
> this order, create a PDF for this order (probably using an HTMLDOC 
> http://easysw.com/htmldoc) template and send that packing slip to the 
> printer also.

I did this (pretty much the same) with a couple of PHP pages. Then
'buttons' can just submit forms that can do pretty much anything. Also,
this is a lot more malleable than a client-side app, because it can be
done from anywhere with access to that web page.

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