Writing a new shipping quote

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Joined: 03/31/2008

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a new shipping quote from scratch, mainly because the current quotes are to limited in functionality, in my opinion.
Basicly, I want to write a helper module that builds an array of any possible units. Basic ones like shipment weights in kgs, lbs, ozs, etc. But also CBM's, cubic feets, products, boxes, orders (1), etc. The user should also be able to add their own units. Like seafreight 1 cbm or 1000 kilo's, airfreight 1 kilo or 1/167 cbm, road freight pallet 2.2 cbm or 750 kgs etc.

I would like to pass on the $products, $details, $method strings from the actual quote to this module which will return the array mentioned above with all informtion.

Sadly, I can't figure out how to get these arrays into my to be developed module (so quote returning 0), pass them on to my units module and later actually print the array for debugging. It's all done behind a nice but limiting ajax wall...

Anybody got any idea's?