On 6/21/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a side project to help someone come up with a way to print > labels for a/any shipping carrier. I've been meaning to help for a > couple months but I haven't found a way to do this in my spare time. > The only requirements are that it takes the address info from a csv > dump. There (?used?) to be a perl api for this, but apparently UPS > threatened to sue the guy and it's no longer maintained on CPAN. I have > been unable to find any other API that provides a way to login to a > shipper and pay for the shipping amount and get a label that can be > printed and put on the package to ship. > > If anyone has worked with online shopping carts (Or just accessing an > online shipping provider's api) and using perl, what would you recommend > for getting something like this done? I'd take anything from links, > documents, code examples, or if it's something you could come up with in > a couple hours some sort of trade just to get this done. I'm not being > paid, just trying to help out but it would be worth something for me to > get this done and off my back. :) "How hard can it to print under > linux?"(tm). :)
Wow, I am building a similar project, using PHP. I have the internal barcodes printing to a remote printer but nothing is set for any particular shipper as of yet. That's the part I am working on. My implementation won't be in perl, but if I come up with something it should be trivial to rewrite it. I'll keep on the lookout. -- -- Matthew Frederico http://www.ultrize.com ---------------------------------- Office: (361)288-3331 Cell:(801)722-5276 .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
