[ic] Creating custom shipping dropdown list

[Michael Lehmkuhl]

Hello all.

I'm comfortable in Perl, but I'm still pretty new to Interchange.  I'm
having a problem with passing a list of shipping modes to the [shipping]
tag.

The store we are building has custom shipping routines based on
vendor/supplier; each vendor/supplier drop ships the product directly to the
customer.  We've decided to allow the customer to choose a shipping method
for each item in their cart.  To accomplish this, we are modifying
ord/checkout.html.

We have set up custom shipping routines for each vendor using a naming
convention like this:
    vendorname1DA
    vendorname2DA
    othervendor1DA

We've added a vendor field to the product table, and we're attempting to
create a dropdown shipping field under each product on ord/checkout.html
with the shipping methods for the vendor associated with the product.



Here is an excerpt of the shipping.asc with the rules for the vendor named
'syskos':
##### EXCERPT shipping.asc #####
syskosUPSG    UPS Ground    weight    0    0    e Nothing to ship!
{'origin' => "538",'ui_ship_type' => "UPSE:GNDRES",'ups' =>
"1",'PriceDivide' => "1",}
syskosUPSG    UPS Ground    weight    0    150    f [ups-query mode=GNDRES
weight="@@TOTAL@@" origin="538"]        {'PriceDivide' => "1",}
syskosUPSG    UPS Ground    weight    150    9999999    e Too heavy for UPS
{'PriceDivide' => "1",}
syskos2DA    UPS 2nd Day Air    weight    0    0    e Nothing to ship!
{'ui_ship_type' => "UPSE:2DA",'ups' => "1",'at_least' => "5",'adder' =>
"3.00",'PriceDivide' => "1",}
syskos2DA    UPS 2nd Day Air    weight    0    150    f [ups-query
zip="[either][value zip][or][var SHIP_DEFAULT_ZIP][/either]" mode="2DA"
weight="@@TOTAL@@"]        {'PriceDivide' => "1",}
syskos1DA    UPS Next Day Air    weight    0    0    e Nothing to ship!
{'ui_ship_type' => "UPSE:1DA",'ups' => "1",'adder' => "3.00",'at_least' =>
"5",'PriceDivide' => "1",}
syskos1DA    UPS Next Day Air    weight    0    150    f [ups-query
zip="[either][value zip][or][var SHIP_DEFAULT_ZIP][/either]" mode="1DA"
weight="@@TOTAL@@"]        {'PriceDivide' => "1",}
##### EXCERPT ######



Here is the code that we are calling to generate the shipping dropdown:
###### CODE ord/checkout.html ######
[item-list modular=1]

# Other stuff in here...

[seti currentvendor][item-field vendor][/seti]

<SELECT NAME=mv_shipmode onChange="this.form.submit()" CLASS="styled">
[seti vendormodes][data table=country key='[default country US]'
col=shipmodes][/seti]
[perl]

    my @temparr = split(/[\s,]/,$Scratch->{vendormodes});
    my $currentvendor = $Scratch->{currentvendor};
    
    # Display only those shipping modes that match the vendor for this
product.
    @temparr = grep { m"^$currentvendor" } @temparr;
    
    $Scratch->{vendormodes} = join(' ',@temparr);

# Also tried this...
#    $Values->{vendormodes} = join(' ',@temparr);

[/perl]

[shipping
    label=1
    mode='[scratchd vendormodes]'
]
[comment]
# Also tried this...
[shipping
    label=1
    mode='[value vendormodes]'
]
[/comment]
</SELECT>

# Other stuff in here...

[/item-list]
###### CODE ######

We know that the vendor item-field is being properly set and that our [perl]
tag is setting $Values->{vendormodes} to the following string (the
whitespace delimited list of modes called for by the IC Tag Reference entry
for the [shipping] tag):

syskosUPSG syskos2DA syskos1DA



The problem seems to be with the mode argument of the [shipping] tag.  To
make matters even stranger, the standard [shipping] tag, which pulls its
space-separated list of shipping modes from the country database, is
working.  The trouble with that method is that it returns all the US
shipping modes.  We need to limit the list to only those shipping modes
which match the vendor.

I've also been getting these two error messages in my catalog error.log
file, but I'm not sure whether they are relevant to this issue:

209.180.64.37 XF6oVGj6:209.180.64.37 - [11/July/2002:13:40:08 -0700]
hoopstore /cgi-bin/hoopstore/process.html UPS lookup called, zone data not
found
209.180.64.37 XF6oVGj6:209.180.64.37 - [11/July/2002:13:48:37 -0700]
hoopstore /cgi-bin/hoopstore/process.html Shipping 'u' lookup called, no
zone defined

Please help or at least point me in the right general direction.

Thanks.

-- 
Michael Lehmkuhl <michael@electricpulp.com>
Partner, Electric Pulp

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