Re: [ic] Consignment Tracking - A Gift & A Problem

[Joshua Lavin <suppressed>]

On Dec 15, 2004, at 3:36 AM, Adrian P Wilkinson wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> For those of you that have noticed that consignment tracking  
> disappeared from check_orders.html with the 'standard' demo, you might  
> want to consider the following simple modifcation around line 326:
>
>        <td>
>          [display table=transactions type=display col=status  
> key="[sql-code]"]
>          <br>[&nbsp;<a href="/go/parceltrack.cgi?[sql-param  
> tracking_number]">Track</a>&nbsp;]
>        </td>
>
> I'm yet to put any kind of check to see if there is a tracking_number  
> present in the transactions table as that's something to do a little  
> later.
>
> The problem is with the parcel tracking script I've written.  The  
> tracking number entered is in the form of AA-11111111 where 'AA' is a  
> code to represent a service offered by a particular courier company.   
> "BP" is Business Post Next Day and "SD" is Royal Mail Special  
> Delivery, for example.
>
> What is happening is that when it tries to work out who the parcel has  
> been sent with, it doesn't always pick the correct one:
>
> if ( $CARRIERCODE eq "BP" )
> {
>        $CARRIERNAME = "Business Post";
>        $CARRIERSERV = "Next Day";
>        $CARRIERURL = "http://www.businesspost.com/";;
>        $TRACKURL =  
> "http://www.business-post.com/scripts/wsisa.dll/ws_quickpod.html? 
> lc_SearchValue=$CONSIGNMENT";
>        goto pagebody;
> }
>
> if ( $CARRIERCODE eq "SD" )
> {
>        $CARRIERNAME = "Royal Mail";
>        $CARRIERSERV = "Special Delivery";
>        $CARRIERURL = "www.royalmail.com";
>        goto pagebody;
> }
>
> if ( $CARRIERCODE eq "CL" )
> {
>        $CARRIERNAME = "Initial CityLink";
>        $CARRIERSERV = "Next Day";
>        $CARRIERURL = "www.city-link.co.uk";
>        $TRACKURL =  
> "http://www.city-link.co.uk/pod/podfrm.php?JobNo=$CONSIGNMENT";;
>        goto pagebody;
> }
>
> I've tried matching using "eq" and "==" but it seems to just decide to  
> pick one at random.  Any suggestions how I can get it to match  
> $CARRIERCODE (created by taking the first two characters of the string  
> passed) against the above criteria correctly every time?

Just a guess here, but what about using if, elsif, etc?

And you could probably do the check right on your tracking number and  
eliminate $CARRIERCODE if you used regular expressions. But first you  
need it to work, then you can make it pretty...

--
Josh Lavin
Kingdom Design   http://www.kingdomdesign.com/

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