ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Prohibiting Post Office boxes from validating https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:32:50 +0000 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:38:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5405 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Prohibiting Post Office boxes from validating : We actually implemented something...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20694.html#20694 Author: Greg Dinger
Subject: 5405
Posted: 11-January-2013 at 7:38am

We actually implemented something to address this, but in the end, and with all respect to Sean's helpful post, it was a bit more complex than he proposes.  I'm not in a position to go grab the code and paste it here, as it actually involved 2 hours of coding. 
 
What I recall we discovered was that even though something like the above approach seemed desirable, there is logic in OPC that defeated us in that regard.  I beleive that what happened was that we'd get the desired error message, but then the checkout process would blast past our error and head off to the shipping options portion of OPC. 
 
We ended up establishing a block of code in opc_chooseShpmnt.asp that tests pcCustSession_ShippingAddress from the pcCustomerSessions table, and thus addresses the issue.
 
If you find that the above approach is not successful, tap on me (via my site) next week and we can help sort this out for you.
]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:38:47 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20694.html#20694 <![CDATA[Prohibiting Post Office boxes from validating : Ok, I had a quick look under the...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20677.html#20677 Author: Guests
Subject: 5405
Posted: 10-January-2013 at 5:58pm

Ok, I had a quick look under the hood here, and this is what I see:

First of all, you have the name of the variable slightly incorrect here. But handling it here is not the best place as this catches the "error" after the silent post back and then I find that all of the fields the user filled out on shipping info get lost and have to be re-entered. Not particularly elegant.

However, if handling it here, this is what you'd want. Find:
	if pcStrShippingAddress="" then
		pcErrMsg=pcErrMsg & "<li>"&dictLanguage.Item(Session("language")&"_opc_72")&"</li>"
	end if
Right below that, add:
	if InStr(LCase(pcStrShippingAddress),"po box") > 0 OR InStr(LCase(pcStrShippingAddress),"pobox") > 0 OR InStr(LCase(pcStrShippingAddress),"p.o.") > 0 then
		pcErrMsg=pcErrMsg & "<li>"&"You may not ship to a Post Office Box"&"</li>"
	end if

It would be better to handle it on onepagecheckoutJS.asp, though. However, that's more complicated and would take me some head-scratching time to sort out.
]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:58:04 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20677.html#20677 <![CDATA[Prohibiting Post Office boxes from validating : So I&#039;m adding the following...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20676.html#20676 Author: hotshotsecret
Subject: 5405
Posted: 10-January-2013 at 4:30pm

So I'm adding the following to line 75 or thereabouts, and it's not working yet. Continues to load shipping rates: 

if InStr(LCase(pcShippingAddress),"po box") > 0 OR InStr(LCase(pcShippingAddress),"pobox") > 0 then pcErrMsg=pcErrMsg & "<li>Street Address is not valid</li>" end if

Thanks for the quick response!
]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:30:54 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20676.html#20676 <![CDATA[Prohibiting Post Office boxes from validating : Hi @hotshotsecret,I think you&#039;d...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20674.html#20674 Author: Guests
Subject: 5405
Posted: 10-January-2013 at 4:17pm

Hi @hotshotsecret,

I think you'd want this argument instead:
if InStr(LCase(pcShippingAddress),"po box") > 0 OR InStr(LCase(pcShippingAddress),"pobox") > 0 then
]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:17:20 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20674.html#20674 <![CDATA[Prohibiting Post Office boxes from validating : Due to restrictions with our FedEx...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/prohibiting-post-office-boxes-from-validating_topic5405_post20672.html#20672 Author: hotshotsecret
Subject: 5405
Posted: 10-January-2013 at 4:03pm

Due to restrictions with our FedEx shipping manager in Quickbooks, we would like to force an actual street address in the 'ship to' section of the cart.

Here is what I have so far with the code (found in opc_updshipaddr.asp):
ifpcShippingAddress="PO Box" then
pcErrMsg=pcErrMsg & "<li>Street Address is notvalid</li>"
end if

Hopefully I'm on the right track & not over-thinking it...
Thanks!
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