Pokémon GO developer Niantic has announced a handful of large-scale community events set to take place throughout the first half of the year.

Four events have been detailed so far, all taking place between February and May of 2020. The majority of these are Pokémon GO Safari Zone events, which have traditionally allowed attendees to snag region-exclusive Pokémon not usually available in their area. Here’s the full list so far:

• Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taichung – February 6-9
• Pokémon GO Safari Zone St. Louis – March 27-29 (Tickets will go live starting January 24 at 8:00 AM CT)
• Pokémon GO Safari Zone Liverpool – April 17-19 (More information about tickets will be announced soon)
• Pokémon GO Safari Zone Philadelphia – May 8-10 (More information about tickets will be announced soon)

Niantic has also revealed that similar events held across 2019, including Pokémon GO Fest Chicago, helped to drive an estimated $249 million in tourism revenue for the cities in which they appeared. These events have regularly attracted tens of thousands of Pokémon fans, many of whom travelled across the globe to take part.

Do you happen to live near any of these events? Will you try to attend? Let us know in the comments below.

Crema Games has just released its monster-collecting MMO Temtem on Steam early access, and it’s proven to be so successful that players have had trouble getting online with the game. Thankfully, it would seem that things are now settling down after some updates, but people are still having trouble getting the game up and running smoothly – but then, isn’t that why ‘early access’ is much fun?

As you can see from the game’s launch trailer above, it’s all very “Pocket Monster”, complete with an anime-style aesthetic, catchy theme tune and a cast of cute beasts to collect. The key difference is that this is an MMO, which could take the whole ‘gotta catch ’em all’ concept to an entirely new level.

Funded by Kickstarter to the tune of $573,939 (the initial goal was $70,000), Temtem is published by Humble Bundle. It’s coming to Switch in the fullness of time, as well as PS4 and Xbox One.

Will you be picking this one up on Switch, or have you already downloaded the Steam version? Let us know with a comment.

Half-Life: Alyx is coming in March, and we are celebrating early by making all games in the Half-Life Series FREE to play for Steam users, from now until the day it launches!

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Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible.

YouTube has announced that its live TV service YouTube TV has officially launched on PlayStation 4, a debut that heralds the end of Sony’s own ambitions in the live TV streaming space.

The launch comes just one week before Sony’s ill-fated PlayStation Vue goes offline for good on January 30, 2020. The service got its start in 2015, but Sony says a highly competitive industry and expansive complications with licensing deals ultimately made Vue a losing battle.

“Unfortunately, the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected,” said a previous statement from Sony Interactive Entertainment deputy president John Kodera. “Because of this, we have decided to remain focused on our core gaming business.”

Sony had reportedly been on the hunt for a buyer prior to announcing PlayStation Vue’s shutdown in late 2019, but instead opted to shutter the service altogether after a little under 5 years of support.

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Why have regular expressions survived seven decades of technological disruption? Because coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens!

This article is all about the re.split(pattern, string) method of Python’s re library.

Let’s answer the following question:

How Does re.split() Work in Python?

The re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0) method returns a list of strings by matching all occurrences of the pattern in the string and dividing the string along those.

Here’s a minimal example:

>>> import re

>>> string = 'Learn Python with\t Finxter!'

>>> re.split('\s+', string)

['Learn', 'Python', 'with', 'Finxter!']

The string contains four words that are separated by whitespace characters (in particular: the empty space ‘ ‘ and the tabular character ‘\t’). You use the regular expression ‘\s+’ to match all occurrences of a positive number of subsequent whitespaces. The matched substrings serve as delimiters. The result is the string divided along those delimiters.

But that’s not all! Let’s have a look at the formal definition of the split method.

Specification

re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0)

The method has four arguments—two of which are optional.

• pattern: the regular expression pattern you want to use as a delimiter.
• string: the text you want to break up into a list of strings.
• maxsplit (optional argument): the maximum number of split operations (= the size of the returned list). Per default, the maxsplit argument is 0, which means that it’s ignored.
• flags (optional argument): a more advanced modifier that allows you to customize the behavior of the function. Per default the regex module does not consider any flags. Want to know how to use those flags? Check out this detailed article on the Finxter blog.

The first and second arguments are required. The third and fourth arguments are optional.

You’ll learn about those arguments in more detail later.

Return Value:

The regex split method returns a list of substrings obtained by using the regex as a delimiter.

Regex Split Minimal Example

Let’s study some more examples—from simple to more complex.

The easiest use is with only two arguments: the delimiter regex and the string to be split.

>>> import re

>>> string = 'fgffffgfgPythonfgisfffawesomefgffg'

>>> re.split('[fg]+', string)

['', 'Python', 'is', 'awesome', '']

You use an arbitrary number of ‘f’ or ‘g’ characters as regular expression delimiters. How do you accomplish this? By combining the character class regex [A] and the one-or-more regex A+ into the following regex: [fg]+. The strings in between are added to the return list.

How to Use the maxsplit Argument?

What if you don’t want to split the whole string but only a limited number of times. Here’s an example:

>>> string = 'a-bird-in-the-hand-is-worth-two-in-the-bush'

>>> re.split('-', string, maxsplit=5)

['a', 'bird', 'in', 'the', 'hand', 'is-worth-two-in-the-bush']

>>> re.split('-', string, maxsplit=2)

['a', 'bird', 'in-the-hand-is-worth-two-in-the-bush']

We use the simple delimiter regex ‘-‘ to divide the string into substrings. In the first method call, we set maxsplit=5 to obtain six list elements. In the second method call, we set maxsplit=3 to obtain three list elements. Can you see the pattern?

You can also use positional arguments to save some characters:

 >>> re.split('-', string, 2)

['a', 'bird', 'in-the-hand-is-worth-two-in-the-bush']

But as many coders don’t know about the maxsplit argument, you probably should use the keyword argument for readability.

How to Use the Optional Flag Argument?

As you’ve seen in the specification, the re.split() method comes with an optional fourth ‘flag’ argument:

re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0)

What’s the purpose of the flags argument?

Flags allow you to control the regular expression engine. Because regular expressions are so powerful, they are a useful way of switching on and off certain features (for example, whether to ignore capitalization when matching your regex).

Here’s how you’d use it in a practical example:

>>> import re

>>> re.split('[xy]+', text, flags=re.I)

['the', 'russians', 'are', 'coming']

Although your regex is lowercase, we ignore the capitalization by using the flag re.I which is short for re.IGNORECASE. If we wouldn’t do it, the result would be quite different:

>>> re.split('[xy]+', text)

['theXXXYYYrussiansXX', 'are', 'Y', 'coming']

As the character class [xy] only contains lowerspace characters ‘x’ and ‘y’, their uppercase variants appear in the returned list rather than being used as delimiters.

What’s the Difference Between re.split() and string.split() Methods in Python?

The method re.split() is much more powerful. The re.split(pattern, string) method can split a string along all occurrences of a matched pattern. The pattern can be arbitrarily complicated. This is in contrast to the string.split(delimiter) method which also splits a string into substrings along the delimiter. However, the delimiter must be a normal string.

An example where the more powerful re.split() method is superior is in splitting a text along any whitespace characters:

import re text = ''' Ha! let me see her: out, alas! he's cold: Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely Frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. ''' print(re.split('\s+', text)) '''

['', 'Ha!', 'let', 'me', 'see', 'her:', 'out,', 'alas!', "he's", 'cold:', 'Her', 'blood', 'is', 'settled,', 'and', 'her', 'joints', 'are', 'stiff;', 'Life', 'and', 'these', 'lips', 'have', 'long', 'been', 'separated:', 'Death', 'lies', 'on', 'her', 'like', 'an', 'untimely', 'Frost', 'Upon', 'the', 'sweetest', 'flower', 'of', 'all', 'the', 'field.', ''] '''

The re.split() method divides the string along any positive number of whitespace characters. You couldn’t achieve such a result with string.split(delimiter) because the delimiter must be a constant-sized string.

Related Re Methods

There are five important regular expression methods which you should master:

• The re.findall(pattern, string) method returns a list of string matches. Read more in our blog tutorial.
• The re.search(pattern, string) method returns a match object of the first match. Read more in our blog tutorial.
• The re.match(pattern, string) method returns a match object if the regex matches at the beginning of the string. Read more in our blog tutorial.
• The re.fullmatch(pattern, string) method returns a match object if the regex matches the whole string. Read more in our blog tutorial.
• The re.compile(pattern) method prepares the regular expression pattern—and returns a regex object which you can use multiple times in your code. Read more in our blog tutorial.

These five methods are 80% of what you need to know to get started with Python’s regular expression functionality.

Where to Go From Here?

You’ve learned about the re.split(pattern, string) method that divides the string along the matched pattern occurrences and returns a list of substrings.

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In an eCommerce website, we use the shipping API to calculate shipping cost. We calculate based on the items added to the shopping cart.

Integrating Shipping API with an eCommerce website will optimize the logistics cost. It takes care of the shipping needs in an effective way.

Shipping API integration helps eCommerce website by charging the right amount for shipping. Imagine when we add a random fixed cost to each checkout. What will happen is that, we will either overcharge the customer or end up in direct loss.

In this article, we will see how to integrate Australia Post shipping API in a PHP application. You can use this code in a shopping cart checkout page to calculate shipping rates.

I have created code to request the Australia Post API to calculate the shipping rates. This rate is for the products on domestic shipping.

What is inside?

1. What is Shipping API?
2. Utilities of third-party shipping API
3. Existing shipping API available
4. About Australia Post API
5. About this example
6. File Structure
7. Australia Post shipping API integration steps
8. Web interface to get data to calculate shipping rates
9. PHP code with Australia Post shipping API request-response handlers
10. Australia Post shipping API integration output

What is Shipping API?

Shipping API – a digital intermediate as like as other APIs. It resolves eCommerce website shipping needs.

Integratable extern responds to the queries generated by the application.

With the available services and capabilities, it help build the eCommerce website’s shipping needs.

This ready-made solution will smoothen the customer’s buying experience with your online store.

Capabilities of Shipping APIs

For each eCommerce website, the motive to integrate Shipping API differs. This variation depends on the utilities required by the shopping cart.

In general, the capabilities of Shipping APIs are,

1. Verifying shipping zone
2. Multi-carrier support
3. Tracking the order traces during shipment.

With these capability limit, the Shipping APIs provides ultimate services. And, they are huge in number. For example,

1. Ensuring the shipping destination and thereby calculate the success probability of the delivery.
2. Request a quote for the carrier or shipment.
3. Receiving notification about tracking updates.

The Australia Post shipping API provides services like,

• Postage assessment calculation
• Postal code search
• SecurePay online payments and more.

Existing shipping API available

Postal carrier APIs like DHL, USPS, Australia Post provides services for the eCommerce website. It offers services like calculating shipping rates, tracking shipped parcel and more.

There are numerous third-party shipping APIs available.  For example Postmen, EasyPost, Shippo and more.

The third-party shipping API has a RESTful interface that connects postal service APIs. It creates a channel to read the API to access its functionalities.

About Australia Post API

Australia Post API suite has the following list APIs. All these APIs help to fulfil the transactional needs of your eCommerce website.

1. Postage assessment calculator – To get the cost for shipping a document or parcel.
2. Shipping and tracking – To get service on product dispatch and tracking.
3. SecurePay online payments – Payment solutions for an eCommerce website via SecurePay integration.
4. Delivery choices API – gives the delivery choices to the user to choose location, speed, day, date, time.

For accessing the API, it requires the corresponding API key. As per the Australia Post API access requirements it asks to register with the API  to get the key.

Australia Post provides an interface to explore the APIs. You may generate live API requests via this explorer to see how it works.

About this example

In this example, it uses the Postage assessment calculator API  or PAC of the Australia Post API suite.

This API provides services to calculate the shipping cost. This cost varies based on the parcel weight, dimension, and more parameters.

This API includes various endpoints returning resources data based on the access requests.

I am creating a request for calculating the shipping cost for a domestic parcel. This request needs the corresponding API key. In the next section, we will see how to get the API key for accessing the PAC API.

For this calculation, the API requires the parcel dimension, height, width. And also, it needs the shipping zone’s origin and destination postal codes. These are all common considering any eCommerce website.

I get the parameters from the user via an HTML form and send it with the API request.

This example uses PHP CURL to access the Australia Post Postage assessment calculator API.

File Structure

The below screenshot shows the Australia Post shipping rate calculation example files.

Australia Post shipping API integration steps

The steps to integrate Australia Post in an eCommerce website are,

1. Choose API from the Australia Post API suite.
2. Create a new account to get the API key.
3. Choose the postage service and set the endpoint.
4. Set the API key as the HTTP header AUTH-KEY.
5. Generate the PAC API request with the header set in step 4.

How to get the Australia Post PAC API key

There are many APIs provided by the Australia Post in API suite. The first step is to choose the API based on the need of your eCommerce website.

As discussed in the last section, I choose PAC API for calculating the shipping cost.

The PAC API access requirements state that it need the API key. This key is for authenticating the service request generated from the application.

On submitting valid information, it will send the API key to the registered email address. You can use this API then, to access the PAC API services.

Web interface to enter details to calculate shipping rates

This is the code to show a form to collect the product and shipping details.

It has the fields to collect the width, height, weight, and length of the parcel. The form will show the units of these parameters to the user.

 Also, it collects the shipping address. This is the shipping destination address. The zip code is a mandatory field among the shipping address fields.

The shipping origin and destination postal codes are mandatory to calculate the rates.

In this example, the postal code of the shipping origin is configurable. You can also move it to the HTML form to let the user enter the data.

index.php

<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Shipping API</TITLE> <link href="./assets/css/phppot-style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="./assets/css/shipping-api.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <script src="./vendor/jquery/jquery-3.3.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </HEAD> <BODY> <div class="phppot-container"> <div class="australian-api"> <div class="page-heading">Australian Shipping API</div> <form name="australian-api" id="australian-api" action="" method="post" on‌submit="return formValidation()"> <div class="sub-heading">Product Details</div> <div class="row"> <div class="inline-block"> <div class="form-label"> Length<span class="units-style">(cm)</span><span class="required error" id="length-info"></span> </div> <input class="input-box-110" type="text" name="length" id="length" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["length"])){ echo $_POST["length"];}?>"> </div> <div class="inline-block input-right-margin"> <div class="form-label"> Width<span class="units-style">(cm)</span><span class="required error" id="width-info"></span> </div> <input class="input-box-110" type="text" name="width" id="width" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["width"])){ echo $_POST["width"];}?>"> </div> <div class="inline-block"> <div class="form-label"> Height<span class="units-style">(cm)</span><span class="required error" id="height-info"></span> </div> <input class="input-box-110" type="text" name="height" id="height" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["height"])){ echo $_POST["height"];}?>"> </div> <div class="inline-block input-right-margin"> <div class="form-label"> Weight<span class="units-style">(kg)</span><span class="required error" id="weight-info"></span> </div> <input class="input-box-110" type="text" name="weight" id="weight" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["weight"])){ echo $_POST["weight"];}?>"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="inline-block"> <div class="form-label"> Quantity<span class="required error" id="quantity-info"></span> </div> <input class="input-box-110" type="number" name="quantity" id="quantity" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["quantity"])){ echo $_POST["quantity"];}else{echo 1;}?>"> </div> </div> <div class="sub-heading">Shipping Address</div> <div class="row"> <div class="inline-block input-right-margin"> <div class="form-label">Address1</div> <input class="input-box-330" type="text" name="address1" id="address1" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["address1"])){ echo $_POST["address1"];}?>"> </div> <div class="inline-block"> <div class="form-label">Address2</div> <input class="input-box-330" type="text" name="address2" id="address2" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["address2"])){ echo $_POST["address2"];}?>"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="inline-block input-right-margin"> <div class="form-label">Country</div> <input class="input-box-330" type="text" name="country" id="country" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["country"])){ echo $_POST["country"];}?>"> </div> <div class="inline-block"> <div class="form-label">State</div> <input class="input-box-330" type="text" name="state" id="state" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["state"])){ echo $_POST["state"];}?>"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="inline-block input-right-margin"> <div class="form-label">City</div> <input class="input-box-330" type="text" name="city" id="city" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["city"])){ echo $_POST["city"];}?>"> </div> <div class="inline-block"> <div class="form-label"> Zip Code<span class="required error" id="to-postcode-info"></span> </div> <input class="input-box-330" type="text" name="to-postcode" id="to-postcode" value="<?php if(! empty($_POST["to-postcode"])){ echo $_POST["to-postcode"];}?>"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div id="inline-block"> <input type="submit" class="submit-button" name="submit-btn" id="submit-btn" value="Get Quote"><span><img src="img/loader.gif" class="loader-ic" id="loader-icon"></span> </div> </div> </form> <?php if (! empty($shippingPrice)) { ?><div> <div class="sub-heading">Shipping Details</div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">Address1:</label> <?php echo $address1;?></div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">Address2:</label> <?php echo $address2;?></div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">Country:</label> <?php echo $country;?></div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">State:</label> <?php echo $state;?></div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">City:</label> <?php echo $city;?></div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">Quantity:</label> <?php echo $quantity;?></div> <div class="row"> <label class="shipping-result">Shipping price:</label> $<?php echo $quantity * $shippingPrice;?></div> </div> <?php }else if(!empty($errorMsg)){?> <div class="error-message"><?php echo $errorMsg;?></div> <?php }?> </div> </div> <script src="./assets/js/shipping.js"></script> </BODY> </HTML> 

CSS created to present the payment form

This CSS includes basic styles to show the shipping form to the user. It has exclusive styles related to this example.

Apart from that, this example contains a generic CSS phppot-styles.css. It contains common template styles with a list of selectors. You can find this generic CSS in the downloadable source.

assets/css/shipping-api.css

.australian-api { background: #fff; border-radius: 4px; padding: 10px; width: 85%; margin: 20px 40px; } .page-heading { font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold; } .sub-heading { font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; margin: 20px 0px; } .inline-block { display: inline-block; } .row { margin: 15px 0px; } .form-label { margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: left; } input.input-box-330 { width: 250px; } input.input-box-110 { width: 120px; margin-right: 5px; } .australian-api .error { color: #ee0000; padding: 0px; background: none; border: #ee0000; } .australian-api .error-field { border: 1px solid #d96557; } .australian-api .error:before { content: '*'; padding: 0 3px; color: #D8000C; } input.submit-button { background-color: #ffb932; border-color: #ffc87a #e2a348 #da9d0a; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; color: #000; width: 100px; } .input-right-margin { margin-right: 30px; } .shipping-result { font-weight: bold; color: #737171; padding: 15px 0px; } .error-message { color: #D8000C; } .units-style { font-size: 0.8em; color: #666; margin-left: 2px; } .loader-ic { display: none; } 

jQuery script to validate the shipping details

The shipping.js file contains the form validation function. It validates the mandatory fields and makes sure that they are not empty.

It returns boolean based on which the form-post carried forward to PHP. While returning false, it highlights what’s wrong with the entered data.

After successful validation, PHP will validate the shipping attributes sent via the form.

assets/js/shipping.js

function formValidation() { var valid = true; $("#length").removeClass("error-field"); $("#width").removeClass("error-field"); $("#height").removeClass("error-field"); $("#weight").removeClass("error-field"); $("#quantity").removeClass("error-field"); $("#to-postcode").removeClass("error-field"); var Length = $("#length").val(); var Width = $("#width").val(); var Height = $("#height").val(); var Weight = $("#weight").val(); var Quantity = $("#quantity").val(); var toPostcode = $("#to-postcode").val(); if (Length.trim() == "") { $("#length-info").html("").css("color", "#ee0000").show(); $("#length").addClass("error-field"); valid = false; } if (Width.trim() == "") { $("#width-info").css("color", "#ee0000").show(); $("#width").addClass("error-field"); valid = false; } if (Height.trim() == "") { $("#height-info").css("color", "#ee0000").show(); $("#height").addClass("error-field"); valid = false; } if (Weight.trim() == "") { $("#weight-info").css("color", "#ee0000").show(); $("#weight").addClass("error-field"); valid = false; } if (Quantity.trim() == "" || Quantity < 1) { $("#quantity-info").css("color", "#ee0000").show(); $("#quantity").addClass("error-field"); valid = false; } if (toPostcode.trim() == "") { $("#to-postcode-info").css("color", "#ee0000").show(); $("#to-postcode").addClass("error-field"); valid = false; } if (valid == false) { $('.error-field').first().focus(); valid = false; } if (valid == true) { $("#submit-btn").hide(); $("#loader-icon").show(); } return valid; } 

PHP code with Australia Post shipping API request-response handlers

This is the configuration file of this example code. It has the constants defined for keeping the API key and shipping origin.

Common/Config.php

<?php namespace Phppot; class Config { const AUSTRALIAN_POST_API_KEY = 'REPLACE_WITH_THE_API_KEY'; const SHIPPING_ORIGION = '1000'; } ?> 

This is an exclusive service class for executing curl script. The execute() function is receiving URL, API KEY as its parameters.

It initiates curl object and set the URL. It sets the header with the API key to call the Australia Post live URL.

The rawBody will receive the API response in JSON format. You can use this as a sample to build an eCommerce website backed by a shopping cart with shipping API integration.

lib/CurlService.php

<?php namespace Phppot; class CurlService { public function execute($url, $apiKey, $ch = null) { if (is_null($ch)) { $ch = curl_init(); } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'AUTH-KEY: ' . $apiKey )); return $rawBody = curl_exec($ch); } } ?> 

The AusPost.php PHP class handles the operation for preparing the API request.

The getShipmentPrice() function set the API key and form data to the PHP variables. It prepares the query parameters with these variables.

The class constructor instantiates the curlService created for this example.

Using the curl instance, it hits the Australia Post live PAC API URL. The API will validate the shipping criteria passed with the query parameters.

The request and response can be of either JSON or XML.

lib/AusPost.php

<?php namespace Phppot; class AusPost { private $curlService; private $api_url = 'https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au/postage/parcel/domestic/calculate?'; public function __construct() { require_once __DIR__ . '/CurlService.php'; $this->curlService = new CurlService(); } public function getShipmentPrice() { require_once __DIR__ . '/../Common/Config.php'; $con = new Config(); $apiKey = $con::AUSTRALIAN_POST_API_KEY; $fromPostcode = $con::SHIPPING_ORIGION; $toPostcode = $_POST["to-postcode"]; $length = $_POST["length"]; $width = $_POST["width"]; $height = $_POST["height"]; $weight = $_POST["weight"]; $queryParams = array( "from_postcode" => $fromPostcode, "to_postcode" => $toPostcode, "length" => $length, "width" => $width, "height" => $height, "weight" => $weight, "service_code" => "AUS_PARCEL_REGULAR" ); // here use $curlService and execute $url = $this->api_url . http_build_query($queryParams); $result = $this->curlService->execute($url, $apiKey); $shippingResult = json_decode($result); return $shippingResult; } } ?> 

index.php (PHP Code)

<?php namespace Phppot; if (! empty($_POST["submit-btn"])) { require_once __DIR__ . '/lib/AusPost.php'; $shippingApi = new AusPost(); $result = $shippingApi->getShipmentPrice(); if (isset($result->postage_result)) { $shippingPrice = $result->postage_result->total_cost; } else { $errorMsg = $result->error->errorMessage; } $quantity = $_POST["quantity"]; $address1 = $_POST["address1"]; $address2 = $_POST["address2"]; $state = $_POST["state"]; $country = $_POST["country"]; $city = $_POST["city"]; } ?> 

Australia Post shipping API integration output

The output screenshot below shows the payment and shipping form. It is to get the shipping details from the user.

It also has the fields to collect parameters like height, width and the dimension of the products.

You can also integrate this form into your shopping cart checkout page to calculate rates. For a shopping cart, it requires only the shipping address.

Because, the height, width, height will be a part of a product entity. And the quantity can be read from the cart session or database. The below form is generic and with little customization can be used for any eCommerce website.

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