How to Implement a shipping calculator using a PHP programming Language to calculate shipping costs based on the customer's distance to the business location.

Selling goods online is one of the best ways to expand your business reach to potential buyers across other cities other than your business location in e-commerce systems.

Mostly when goods are physical products, one important aspect to consider in other not to lose customers is the shipping cost. When the shipping cost is fixed to a certain amount it can be unfair to some of your customers.

The calculation of the shipping costs can be complex, depending on the cost of operation of the shipping carrier company.

The Shipping Calculator liberay provides an easy way of calculating shipping costs in PHP programming language, it takes the geographical coordinates of the business origin and customer's product destination of the product to determine the cost to deliver the product based on the initial cost per kilometer of distance.

It also calculates the estimated arrival days/time per speed as well as converting distance from kilometer to miles or miles to kilometer.

IMPLEMENTATION

To Implement a PHP Shipping Calculator in your business or project, you need PHP programming experience, it can be downloaded from GitHub or installed via the PHP composer package manager.

copyuse Luminova\ExtraUtils\ShippingCalculator;

$calculator = new ShippingCalculator();

$calculator->setOrigin(6.47427, 7.56196); 
$calculator->setDestination(6.51181, 7.35535);
$calculator->setCharge(100);

$distance = $calculator->getDistance();

echo "Distance: $distance->toString() \n";
echo "Shipping Fee: $distance->getCharges()\n";

Conclusion

PHP Shipping Calculator can be helpful to e-commerce businesses, to maintain fairness in shipping costs and also ensure the business doesn't lose money for shipping.