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First custom plugin - Tax. Help?

tjmahaffey

Posted: 26 July 2012 07:53 AM

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Ah… That reduced the load time dramatically. Its still firing 4x, but I’ll take that over 15x. Thanks so much, Chris.

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Posted: 26 July 2012 07:59 AM

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And I think that’ll go down. I recently revised CT a bit to stop loading the tax API itself in multiple places. I think the tax API’s being loaded and called a few places in a slightly older version of CT, and I nixed that recently for consistency’s sake. I’d guess that once it’s only being loaded one time it might reduce the number of times it fires to 1.

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Posted: 30 July 2012 06:53 AM

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Any timeline on a release of CT that reflects the further reduction of load frequency of the tax api?

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Chris Newton

Posted: 30 July 2012 09:56 AM

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If you’re not on CT 2.1.4+…. upgrade. I was thinking it was in that, but might not be. Otherwise, I don’t have a specific date yet for the next launch. If you’re up to date, I’ll check and see where it’s at.

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Posted: 31 July 2012 06:52 AM

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Yes, this particular project is on CT 2.1.4

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Chris Newton

Posted: 31 July 2012 10:22 AM

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The tax changes I made with regards to the API were already in 2.1.4. So for now, there’s not going to be any reduced loads of that particular call.

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tjmahaffey

Posted: 03 August 2012 07:58 AM

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I’m making a revision to my tax plugin in order to calculate tax by shipping address or a predetermined pickup location’s zip code.
I’ve hard-coded the pickup addresses into my plugin as variables.
The choice of shipping versus pickup is stored in a custom_data value.

My problem: it seems that my tax plugin can’t access custom data…? I’m getting an error when the tax plugin fires on this first line:

$custom_data = $this->EE->cartthrob->cart->order('custom_data');  
  $pickup = $custom_data['local_pickup']; 

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Chris Newton

Posted: 07 August 2012 06:34 AM

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->order is POST order

you’re currently in the CART data stage

$custom_data = $this->EE->cartthrob->cart->custom_data(); 

or $pickup = $this->EE->cartthrob->cart->custom_data("local_pickup"); 

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Posted: 07 August 2012 11:03 AM

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I’m using this at the top of my get_tax() method…


$custom_data = $this->EE->cartthrob->cart->custom_data();

I’m getting this error:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined property: Cartthrob_tax_avalaris::$EE

Filename: tax_plugins/Cartthrob_tax_avalaris.php

Line Number: 27

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Chris Newton

Posted: 08 August 2012 05:12 AM

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Sorry. That should have been

$this->core->cart->custom_data()

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Posted: 08 August 2012 06:54 AM

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AH, ok. That seems to have corrected my error problem.

Are there methods for *writing* to the cart? I need to set the shipping address invisibly based on the pickup location they choose from a dropdown menu. They’ll choose a pickup location by name, but my tax plugin needs to set the shipping address using some hard-coded values I’ve set up in my plugin.

Of course, I can’t *write* to: $this->core->cart->customer_info(“shipping_address”)

My alternate option was to use some jquery to append some hidden form values to the HTML on the client side so they are submitted invisibly with the shopping cart (pre-checkout) form. But I’d like to be able to do all of it inside my plugin instead…

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Posted: 08 August 2012 07:32 AM

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$this->core->cart->set_customer_info($field, $value);

Look at Cartthrob/cartthrob/core/cartthrob_cart.php LOTS of functions in there whose purpose should be obvious

$this->core->cart->set_customer_info("shipping_address", "123 street" );
$this->core->cart->save(); 

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tjmahaffey

Posted: 08 August 2012 07:47 AM

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Wow, that’ll help alot. Thanks, Chris.

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