Help creating a carrier module

[iambaz]

I am creating a module which gets my shipping costs from an external API. I have ten carriers added to the system and I am using 'getPackageShippingCost()' hook to return a new shipping value. 

 

My problem is that when I use this hook, it returns the same value for all of the carriers listed. I want to be able to return a different value for each carrier but I don't know how to switch between them in the hook.

 

This is the code I have:

 

    public function getPackageShippingCost($cart, $shipping_cost, $products)

    {

        return 10;

    }

 

So this returns a shipping cost of £10 for every carrier. I want to be able to switch between them, so I imagined it would be something like:

 

    public function getPackageShippingCost($cart, $shipping_cost, $products)

    {

        if($this->current_carrier == "UPS"){

            return 15;

        } else {

            return 10;

        }

    }

 

So is there any way I can identify that 'current carrier'?

 

Thanks

 

[iambaz]

So the variable I was looking for was $this->id_carrier from within getPackageShippingCost()

 

You must make sure you have the parameter set in your module class:

 

class YourModName extends CarrierModule {

 

    public $id_carrier;

 

}

[presta911]

Thanks Iambaz!

 

Your post helped me out a lot.

 

Have you hardcoded the $this->id_carrier==123  into the getPackageShippingCost function? Or have you figured a way to make that configurable?

Edited November 10, 2015 by presta911 (see edit history)