README

Cidr's goals are simpe, make working with couriers easy.

Cidr will be able to:

• provide the cheapest quotes from couriers
• create/view/delete/track shipment requests with minimum customization for a particular courier
• get shipping labels

Current features:

• create shipments with couriers ParcelForce and P4D

install

Cidr source can be downloaded from github, or can be added as a dependency through Composer by adding the following your composer.json:

{
    ....
    "require": {
        ....
        "captain-courier/cidr": "*"
    }

}

setup

create a file res/credentials.yml in the project directory. It will look something like this:

ParcelForce:
    username: <insert here>
    password: <insert here>
P4D:
    username: <insert here>
    apiKey: <insert here>

Where you would replace <insert here> with your username/password/apiKey. If you don't need one of the couriers, don't add it to the credentials.yml file. For example if you only needed ParcelForce then the credentials.yml file would look like:

ParcelForce:
    username: <insert here>
    password: <insert here>

Whilsts testing Cidr it is recommended to use test credentials instead of production credentials. P4D provide test credentials without signing up, just goto http://www.p4d.co.uk/v2/api.

testing

Cidr uses Travis for testing, available here. Cidr can be tested locally by running:

phpunit --configuration=phpunit.xml src/

usage

An example below for creating a shipment with ParcelForce:

use Cidr\Cidr;
use Cidr\CidrRequest;
use Cidr\CidrResponse;


// creates a new Cidr object
// the cidr object provides capabilities, which are objects that can only 
// perform 1 task for 1 courier such as creating a consignment for ParcelForce.
$cidr = new Cidr();
$capability = $cidr->getCapability("ParcelForce", "CreateConsignment");
$request = new CidrRequest(...);

// submits the request to the courier[s] and returns a Cidr\CidrResponse object.
// response has a context properties which is different depending on the status of the response.
$response = $capability->submitCidrRequest($request);

// checks the request was successful, and prints out the assigned consignment number.
// if the request failed, it prints out the response context to get an idea why it has failed.
if (CidrResponse::STATUS_SUCCESS === $response->getStatus()) {
    // gets the consignment number assigned for the created shipment
    $consignmentNumber = $response->getResponseContext();
    print "consignment number is '${consignmentNumber}'\n";
    exit(0);
} else {
  print "request failed\n";
  print_r($response->getResponseContext());
  exit(1);
}