Re: [mv] Complicated shipping problem (for me)

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

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> I have done something similar on a site. I wrote a little [perl] to check
> for the conditions and then remove the shipping types, so that when it
> [loop]'s through the string to create the drop down to select shipping
> types, they are not shown. I believe Mr. Heins has suggested writing a
> custom UserTag to calculate your shipping in cases like this.

Cool.  Took a while to figure out the syntax, but I have something 
working.

Thanks!

For those interested (and for the archives), I'm including the UserTag 
below.  No laughing please.  :)

Chris

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Here's how it's supposed to work:

   Orders to WA, OR, ID, CA, UT, & NV:    Ground    15% of total, $5.00 min.
   Orders to OR, ID, CA, UT, & NV:        2day air  20% of total, $10.00 min.
   Orders to all states except AK:        2day air  30% of total, $10.00 min.
   Orders to AK:                          2day air  35% of total, $18.00 min.
   Orders to British Columbia, Canada:    Ground    35% of total, $12.00 min.
   Orders to other parts of Canada:       Ground    40% of total, $15.00 min.

This only limits the shipping options in the pulldown menu.  Setting minimum
order values comes later.

In catalog.cfg:

   # checkshipmodes: only return list of available shipping modes for
   # a given state/country combination
   #
   # returns a list matching the codes column in shipping.asc
   UserTag checkshipmodes InsideHTML
   UserTag checkshipmodes Order state country
   UserTag checkshipmodes Routine <<EOR
   sub {
      my ($state, $country) = @_;
      my $shipmode;

      return "noship" if $state eq "HI";
      $shipmode .= "ground " if ($state =~ /^(?:WA|OR|ID|CA|UT|NV)$/ ||
                                  $country !~ /^(?:United States|US)$/i);
      $shipmode .= "2-day" if ($state ne "WA");
      return $shipmode;
   }
   EOR

In ord/checkout.html (replacing the section under the default "Choose
your shipping method" section):

   <SELECT MV=loop MV.ARG="[checkshipmodes
                           state='[value state]' country='[value country]'
                           ]"
                   MV.OPTION="mv_shipmode"
                   onChange="this.form.submit()"
                   NAME="mv_shipmode"
    >
    <OPTION VALUE="[loop-code]"> [shipping-desc [loop-code]] [shipping [loop-code]]
    </SELECT>

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