At 06:12 PM 7/25/03, you wrote: >shopping cart available for everyone, but UPS told me they're going >to start taking legal action against people that offer any sort of >modules and/or custom tags, etc. that integrates with their Online >Tools, free or otherwise, that isn't expressly licensed for that >purpose. That said, I can probably give you some "sample code" if you >need it. >--
For shipping charge calcs, I just this week contacted UPS about integrating their XML tool into my client sites - I've got several who have their own UPS accounts for shipping. Tech support sent me an email back saying all I needed to do was download the XML tool from their site (ec.ups.com) and use it as I needed. I'll be working on creating a CF process to extract the XML data sometime in the next couple weeks. Are you saying that I'd be in violation of some UPS licensing rule in this? If so, must have been a decent tech support guy that emailed me and didn't mention that. However if they have a way of tracking that stuff down, and I have to go through this insanity all over again, I'd rather hold off and get clarification! As a stop-gap measure, I created my own little custom tag (well, it's really just a bunch of queries) that I connect to the client's databases where I put UPS Zone and Rate tables right into their databases using the most current rates. It's not the greatest solution cause when rates change I'll need to post the new rates, which were only available in PDF format and meant I had to copy out the rates from the rate tables one at a time, turn them into CSVs, strip out $ signs (which appear only on the first row of each table!) then import them. Also, every Origination Zip requires it's own Zone tables! So duh, yeah, XML is the way to go. <sigh> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
