Programmatically retrieve list of all shipping methods

Question

I'm writing a quick-and-dirty module to restrict shipping methods based on products in the cart. For example, if the customer adds food, I only want overnight shipping methods to be selected. Some of the commercial extensions are just overkill and have way more functionality that I need.

Each product will have a dropdown attribute called "Shipping Class". The admin will be able to create these Shipping Classes in the backend. They will give it a name and choose which methods are allowed.

When it comes time to get shipping quotes, we'll only show allowed methods based on the Shipping Class.

My main question is: how can I retrieve a list of all the shipping methods for the admin to select from when creating these shipping classes?

And as a secondary question, does it make sense to do the filtering of allowed methods inside of Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address::requestShippingRates? (I will be overriding this method of course)

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EDIT:

Thanks to @BrianVPS, I was able to come up with the code below. It displays all individual methods from the carriers using optgroups. Works great with multiselect! I don't think it checks if the methods are actually enabled though.

public function getAllShippingMethods()
{
    $methods = Mage::getSingleton('shipping/config')->getActiveCarriers();

    $options = array();

    foreach($methods as $_ccode => $_carrier)
    {
        $_methodOptions = array();
        if($_methods = $_carrier->getAllowedMethods())
        {
            foreach($_methods as $_mcode => $_method)
            {
                $_code = $_ccode . '_' . $_mcode;
                $_methodOptions[] = array('value' => $_code, 'label' => $_method);
            }

            if(!$_title = Mage::getStoreConfig("carriers/$_ccode/title"))
                $_title = $_ccode;

            $options[] = array('value' => $_methodOptions, 'label' => $_title);
        }
    }

    return $options;
}

Answer 1

Here is a block of code I have in a source_model for a shipping extension I wrote. Hopefully this is what you're looking for.

...as for your second question, not sure....

public function toOptionArray($isMultiSelect = false)
{
    $methods = Mage::getSingleton('shipping/config')->getActiveCarriers();

    $options = array();

    foreach($methods as $_code => $_method)
    {
        if(!$_title = Mage::getStoreConfig("carriers/$_code/title"))
            $_title = $_code;

        $options[] = array('value' => $_code, 'label' => $_title . " ($_code)");
    }

    if($isMultiSelect)
    {
        array_unshift($options, array('value'=>'', 'label'=> Mage::helper('adminhtml')->__('--Please Select--')));
    }

    return $options;
}

Answer 2

Taking @BrianVPS's answer, I'm using the code segment below (with structure shown) to help in my situation, where I wanted a simple human label from the shipping code.

$methods = Mage::getSingleton('shipping/config')->getActiveCarriers();
$shipping = array();
foreach($methods as $_ccode => $_carrier) {
    if($_methods = $_carrier->getAllowedMethods())  {
        if(!$_title = Mage::getStoreConfig("carriers/$_ccode/title"))
            $_title = $_ccode;
        foreach($_methods as $_mcode => $_method)   {
            $_code = $_ccode . '_' . $_mcode;
            $shipping[$_code]=array('title' => $_method,'carrier' => $_title);
        }
    }
}
echo "\n";print_r($shipping);
/*
[flatrate_flatrate] => Array
        [title] => Will-call
        [carrier] => Pickup At Ca Cycleworks
[freeshipping_freeshipping] => Array
        [title] => Economy
        [carrier] => Free Ground Shipping
[ups_11] => Array
        [title] => UPS Standard
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_12] => Array
        [title] => UPS Three-Day Select
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_54] => Array
        [title] => UPS Worldwide Express Plus
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_65] => Array
        [title] => UPS Saver
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_01] => Array
        [title] => UPS Next Day Air
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_02] => Array
        [title] => UPS Second Day Air
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_03] => Array
        [title] => UPS Ground
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_07] => Array
        [title] => UPS Worldwide Express
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[ups_08] => Array
        [title] => UPS Worldwide Expedited
        [carrier] => United Parcel Service
[customshippingrate_customshippingrate] => Array
        [title] => Custom Shipping Rate
        [carrier] => Custom Shipping Rate
*/

Answer 3

I've created a function for this out of the answers already provided. This creates an option group of all the shipping methods:

function getShippingMethods($_methods, $fieldId, $fieldName, $fieldClass){
    $_shippingHtml = '<select name="' . $fieldName . '" id="' . $fieldId . '" class="' . $fieldClass . '">';
    foreach($_methods as $_carrierCode => $_carrier){
        if($_method = $_carrier->getAllowedMethods())  {
            if(!$_title = Mage::getStoreConfig('carriers/' . $_carrierCode . ' /title')) {
                $_title = $_carrierCode;
            }
            $_shippingHtml .= '<optgroup label="' . $_title . '">';
            foreach($_method as $_mcode => $_m){
                $_code = $_carrierCode . '_' . $_mcode;
                $_shippingHtml .= '<option value="' . $_code . '">' . $_m . '</option>';
            }
            $_shippingHtml .= '</optgroup>';
        }
    }
    $_shippingHtml .= '</select>';
    return $_shippingHtml;
}

The $_methods argument is an object from Magento:

$_methods = Mage::getSingleton('shipping/config')->getActiveCarriers();

So, we can call the function and pass the $_methods object to it as follows:

<?php echo getShippingMethods($_methods, 'shipping_method', 'shipping_method', 'shipping'); ?>

Hope that helps someone else.