USPS real time rates are a feature that has been long desired, you can always pay a developer but here is a walk through. I was working on other projects and for a long time I had some issues with USPS’ API and it is because their testing server is not all that functional so after sending an email to USPS API support they put my user ID to the production server and I was getting rates! I have to give credit where credit is due and say that Mark Sanborn’s Blog helped me and gave me about 90% of the PHP code needed to get this feature working.

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After searching the interwebs for simple PHP pagination and failing to add it to the (non-Yahoo) store I’ve been building, I was fed up and just thought “why can’t I make one myself?”

This is not the typical “Yahoo E-commerce” post for which E-comm Solution is known.  We’re spreading our wings and branching out into WordPress and all-around web design, not limited to the Yahoo platform.

So here is a quick and dirty post on pagination for your PHP/MySQL based site.  If you see anything wrong or something needs to be changed just leave a comment and it will be addressed.

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Every year, the state you live in needs more money.  They tend to have funny ways of getting the funding they need.  For example, many states have a tax rate that changes with the county the customer is in or the item that is for sale. I am in no way a tax consultant and I live in a state that does not collect sales tax, making an article like this one that much more difficult to write.  I will attempt to show you the basics of setting up real time rates in a yahoo store using PHP, and you will be able to use this same script to set up tax rates by item type and or city and state.

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