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Hi Nathan,

The answer is no, there is no way to call the realtime rates from within a custom shipping script in 5.1.  I believe that feature is available in version 6.0 though, so upgrading would be one way to accomplish what you want. 

Another way would be to use  from me and rottenuncle that sets up an option to use realtime rates together with a custom shipping script.  You could disable all the domestic realtime rates and put a check in your custom script so you don't put out any rates for international orders, and you'd then end up with custom script for domestic and realtime for international.  Be careful with that hack though - the original post was non-functional and you will need to apply my corrections from further down the thread.

Finally, you could always just expand your custom shipping script to do weight based calculations for international orders.  You can check if an order is international using the following sort of if statement:

if ($fd_trackitem_shipcountry eq $site_owner_country) {

And the weight of the package is available in the variable $item_total_weight, so you could in theory bypass the realtime stuff and just expand your custom script.

Good luck!

EDIT: Corrected script example (inserted missing $ and changed operator).

Last edited by rachaelseven (01-21-2009 09:57:39)

You're quite welcome.  Please note that I corrected two errors in my script example in case you decide to use that method.