UPS Online Tools

[robsgaming]

Recently I came across some pretty nifty stuff about how to send XML requests to get shipping information from UPS. I've already received my developers key and access key. I've searched several posts on this site and elsehwere but haven't really came across anything.

For starters, my server doesn't have curl installed. Is there a way to send an xml request to the UPS servers without curl to get shipping information based on a zipcode and weight? If so, where can I find some information about how to send xml requests, etc.

Have any of you guys came across any scripts or tutorials that shows you how to use php to get the shipping costs based on zipcode and weight. I only need this for UPS as this is the only company we ship our products with.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I have it set up right now to where I have to manually edit some tables in mysql for shipping information; not very efficent.

Thanks in advance.

[drew010]

if you dont have curl you should be able to use sockets to connect and send the request.
see http://php.net/fsockopen, http://php.net/fputs, http://php.net/fgets
if you point me to a page on ups where it documents their shipping api, i could probably type up some quick code to do the job.

edit:
oops, i didnt realize the ups tracking system uses ssl. so in order to use sockets your php has to be compiled with ssl support.