Helmut Granda » PHP Solutions http://www.helmutgranda.com learning through interaction Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:01:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Getting UPS Rates with PHP fixing small issue http://www.helmutgranda.com/2009/11/22/getting-ups-rates-with-php-fixing-small-issue/ http://www.helmutgranda.com/2009/11/22/getting-ups-rates-with-php-fixing-small-issue/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:50:23 +0000 Helmut Granda http://www.helmutgranda.com/?p=392 There is an great class in Google Code written in PHP that works as a wrapper to the UPS API, I started using it about a year ago and never had issues with it since I was using it with Flash/AMFPHP/PHP, but now that I am working with a new shopping cart where I need this functionality but the front end is PHP only, I noticed that I was starting to get the following error:

PHP:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in path.../UPSRate.php(131) : eval()'d code on line 1[php]

    After investigating the issue further I was able to fix the issue by only using eval on those elements where 'value' wasn't undefined.

    [php]if (isset($xml_elem['value'])) {
             $php_stmt .= '[$xml_elem[\'tag\']] = $xml_elem[\'value\'];';
             eval($php_stmt);
    }

Notice that these parse errors do not break the application and that is why they weren't raising a flag in Flash but working on PHP alone we have to squash all these kind of warnings.

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