Business::UPS
UPS(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation UPS(3)
NAME
Business::UPS - A UPS Interface Module
SYNOPSIS
use Business::UPS;
my ($shipping,$ups_zone,$error) = getUPS(qw/GNDCOM 23606 23607 50/);
$error and die "ERROR: $error\n";
print "Shipping is \$$shipping\n";
print "UPS Zone is $ups_zone\n";
%track = UPStrack("z10192ixj29j39");
$track{error} and die "ERROR: $track{error};
# ’Delivered’ or ’In-transit’
print "This package is $track{Current Status}\n";
DESCRIPTION
A way of sending four arguments to a module to get shipping charges
that can be used in, say, a CGI.
REQUIREMENTS
I’ve tried to keep this package to a minimum, so you’ll need:
· Perl 5.003 or higher
· LWP Module
ARGUMENTS for getUPS()
Call the subroutine with the following values:
1. Product code (see product-codes.txt)
2. Origin Zip Code
3. Destination Zip Code
4. Weight of Package
and optionally:
5. Country Code, (see country-codes.txt)
6. Rate Chart (drop-off, pick-up, etc - see below)
6. Length,
7. Width,
8. Height,
9. Oversized (defined if oversized), and
10. COD (defined if C.O.D.)
1 Product Codes:
1DM Next Day Air Early AM
1DML Next Day Air Early AM Letter
1DA Next Day Air
1DAL Next Day Air Letter
1DP Next Day Air Saver
1DPL Next Day Air Saver Letter
2DM 2nd Day Air A.M.
2DA 2nd Day Air
2DML 2nd Day Air A.M. Letter
2DAL 2nd Day Air Letter
3DS 3 Day Select
GNDCOM Ground Commercial
GNDRES Ground Residential
XPR Worldwide Express
XDM Worldwide Express Plus
XPRL Worldwide Express Letter
XDML Worldwide Express Plus Letter
XPD Worldwide Expedited
In an HTML "option" input it might look like this:
<OPTION VALUE="1DM">Next Day Air Early AM
<OPTION VALUE="1DML">Next Day Air Early AM Letter
<OPTION SELECTED VALUE="1DA">Next Day Air
<OPTION VALUE="1DAL">Next Day Air Letter
<OPTION VALUE="1DP">Next Day Air Saver
<OPTION VALUE="1DPL">Next Day Air Saver Letter
<OPTION VALUE="2DM">2nd Day Air A.M.
<OPTION VALUE="2DA">2nd Day Air
<OPTION VALUE="2DML">2nd Day Air A.M. Letter
<OPTION VALUE="2DAL">2nd Day Air Letter
<OPTION VALUE="3DS">3 Day Select
<OPTION VALUE="GNDCOM">Ground Commercial
<OPTION VALUE="GNDRES">Ground Residential
2 Origin Zip(tm) Code
Origin Zip Code as a number or string (NOT +4 Format)
3 Destination Zip(tm) Code
Destination Zip Code as a number or string (NOT +4 Format)
4 Weight
Weight of the package in pounds
5 Country
Defaults to US
6 Rate Chart
How does the package get to UPS:
Can be one of the following:
Regular Daily Pickup
On Call Air
One Time Pickup
Letter Center
Customer Counter
ARGUMENTS for UPStrack()
The tracking number.
use Business::UPS;
%t = UPStrack("1ZX29W290250xxxxxx");
print "This package is $track{Current Status}\n";
RETURN VALUES
getUPS()
The raw http get() returns a list with the following values:
## Desc Typical Value
-- --------------- -------------
0. Name of server: UPSOnLine3
1. Product code: GNDCOM
2. Orig Postal: 23606
3. Country: US
4. Dest Postal: 23607
5. Country: US
6. Shipping Zone: 002
7. Weight (lbs): 50
8. Sub-total Cost: 7.75
9. Addt’l Chrgs: 0.00
10. Total Cost: 7.75
11. ???: -1
If anyone wants these available for some reason, let me know.
UPStrack()
The hash that’s returned is like the following:
’Delivered on’ => ’1-22-1998 at 2:58 PM’
’Notice’ => ’UPS authorizes you to use UPS...’
’Received by’ => ’DR PORCH’
’Addressed to’ => ’NEWPORT NEWS, VA US’
’scan’ => HASH(0x146e0c) (more later...)
’Current Status’ => ’Delivered’
’Delivered to’ => ’RESIDENTIAL’
’Sent on’ => ’1-20-1998’
’UPS Service’ => ’2ND DAY AIR’
’Tracking Number’ => ’1ZX29W29025xxxxxx’
’Scanning’ => (See next paragraph)
Notice the key ’Scanning’ is a newline (\n) delineated list of
scanning locations. Each line has two parts: 1. Time/Date of scan
and 2. Type of scan. In its scalar context, it looks like this:
1-22-19982:58 PM NEWPORT NEWS-OYSTER, VA US = DELIVERED
1-21-199811:37 PM RICHMOND, VA US = LOCATION SCAN
2:05 PM PHILA AIR HUB, PA US = LOCATION SCAN
1-20-199811:35 PM PHILA AIR HUB, PA US = LOCATION SCAN
...but a line or two of code can make it very usable like this:
foreach $line (split "\n", $track{Scanning}) {
my ($location, $type) = split /=/, $line;
print "At $location, the shipment was $type\n";
}
EXAMPLE
getUPS()
To retreive the shipping of a ’Ground Commercial’ Package weighing
25lbs. sent from 23001 to 24002 this package would be called like
this:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use Business::UPS;
my ($shipping,$ups_zone,$error) = getUPS(qw/GNDCOM 23001 23002 25/);
$error and die "ERROR: $error\n";
print "Shipping is \$$shipping\n";
print "UPS Zone is $ups_zone\n";
UPStrack()
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use Business:UPS;
%t = UPStrack("z10192ixj29j39");
$t{error} and die "ERROR: $t{error};
print "This package is $t{’Current Status’}\n"; # ’Delivered’ or
# ’In-transit’
print "More info:\n";
foreach $key (keys %t) {
print "KEY: $key = $t{$key}\n";
}
BUGS
Let me know.
AUTHOR
Mark Solomon <msolomon@seva.net>
mailto:msolomon@seva.net
http://www.seva.net/~msolomon/
NOTE: UPS is a registered trademark of United Parcel Service.
SEE ALSO
perl(1).
perl v5.8.8 1999-02-22 UPS(3)
