Modules:checkout - PDF invoice

Patrick,

There's no reason why not - it's just that in my case, I don't sell downloaded images, so I've never needed to email the invoice. If anyone wants to adapt the module to include the option to email the pdf, I can assist them.

It's straightforward to do that - I'll dig the details out later on.

Thanks alecmyers..
Works like a treat - except...
When the customer clicks the PDF-invoice button he'll get a "Security Violation, The action you attempted is not permitted." error

Perhaps a Gallery-feature rather than a plugin feature, since he's not logged in when opening the order status page from the e-mail link.

/patrick

Sounds like a good idea

Thanks a lot for your involvment here alecmyers.
I'll have somebody take a look at your suggestions later on.
(myself are restricted to colourcodes and cut/paste when it comes to programming of any kind)

/patrick

Dindn't really work for me - the order status page turned out blank instead..
But I'll make somebody have a look at it directly in the system later on
(or if your module gets updated with the functinality in the future, whichever hapens fist)

Thanks a lot anyway - for support out of the ordinary

/patrick

The error code I get is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_FUNCTION in /.../gallery/modules/checkoutpdfinvoice/classes/CheckoutPDFInvoiceStatusPlugin.class on line 80

Means nothing to ME, but line 80 is the last in the file "?>" right after the code I just inserted.

/patrick

Thank you alecmyers,

Great module checkout, very well done, thanks for sharing it.

(coming from http://gallery.menalto.com/node/83565) I copied the unzipped CheckoutPDFInvoiceStatusPlugin.zip to /modules/checkoutpdfinvoice/classes, buy as a customer, press the download-PDF-format-invoice button, it gives me this message:

Security Violation
The action you attempted is not permitted.

Back to the Gallery

When I go to “Orders”, then click an id, then press the download-PDF-format-invoice button it goes smoothly.

What might have gone wrong?

Thank you,

I can`t find any update of the Checkout PDF Invoice anywhere, in my repository displays 0.1.0 when I click to update plugins, which is the version I already should have and I can`t see any option, any link to download or update then, if I see it right. So, how, where do I find the update?

Sorry, I can't still find any other Checkout PDF Invoice than 0.1.0 and I can't find the download-PDF-format-invoice button in 0.1.0. if the version's number should have been stayed the same.

As I see the po files are missing in the new versions, aren't they available anymore?

So then I must have misunderstood you completely:

I understood by this you have meant you are working on to build in this button. So, it is not like that, and then I would like to try to use the file CheckoutPDFInvoiceStatusPlugin.zip, but I obtain the message posted above. May be you have any idea how to solve the problem.

With po files I mean the files used in the most of the checkout modules, e.g. checkoutpaypal, checkoutdownload and so on: there are any po files in any of the downloaded po folders after my new installation of 4.2. The repository list doesn't show new updates (which might contain these po files). Are there older versions containing these po files available of these modules? I think in 4.1 there have been these files or am I wrong?

Sorry for the circumstances.

Yes, I had known and done it, but I can't find any po file which has been downloaded (though checked the right check boxes / options) and when I try to upgrade now, try to download any po file, try to download any other language in the repository list displays something like "No packages chosen", so I don't know how to download any po file. When the po files are downloaded, are they downloaded to /gallery/modules/checkout/po (and respectively to the other checkout modules folders)? These folders contain any po file though I have tried to download them by checking the boxes of the right packages, if I am right.

I have seen the po files of the version 4.1 and the other related checkout modules have been downloaded to /gallery/modules/checkout/po (and respectively to the other checkout modules folders). Has that changed, so were do I find now the po files of 4.2?

Yes, I would like to display German language, that's why I would like to have the po files.

Yes, I have read it in your posting you have done a few days ago and so I did what you wrote there, but I get this Security Violation message posted above.

Would be glad about any idea.

Many thanks for your kind help, the link and checking.

All po files I would need are included, so the distribution contains all the po files I would need, but can't be downloaded obviously, at least by myself. So, can I use the po files from the previous version 4.1 or has there changed anything?

What might be the reason why the po files are not downloaded when downloading, upgrading the checkout modules though chosen the options accordingly?

Thanks alecmyers for supporting.

So, when you new install a 4.2 all the po files are copied / downloaded to the right po folders of the checkout modules, e.g. to /gallery/modules/checkout/po and so on? The only files being downloaded to each of my po folders of the checkout modules are (a further time running the repository list shows what you can see on the screenshot of my second last posting here): GNUmakefile and strings.raw

Is there another place the po files can be download from directly?

Well, this doesn't happen on my system, obviously.

Yes, I had understood this.

This doesn't happen on my system also, obviously.

So, the checkout po files all keep staying in their po folders in which they should have been downloaded automatically when installing or upgrading. This means, unless it doesn't happen in my Gallery, the best would be I download the missing files from here, http://gallery-contrib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gallery-contrib/trunk/gallery2/modules/checkout/po/ and copy them to my checkout po folder(s)?

And accordingly with the mo files to the locale folders of the checkout folders? They are renamed in Gallery when automatically copied to the directories to the g2data/locale/, if I am right.

I deleted in the ACP checkout 4.2, the checkout folder is deleted, then installed a new 4.2. The po folder is empty then, any file in it now, the locale folder, also. I copied the missing files to these folders from the svn server. When running the repo list the status of checkout can't be read as a message shows after (screenshot).

May be I should download all the files of the checkout modules from the svn server and upload them and then install in the ACP then, instead of downloading via ACP.

Many thanks for your help.

I mean: once the po files (e.g. after downloading them by clicking the download link in the repo to the po folders) are in this folder, they will never be (re)moved (like it is done e.g. with the mo files, if I understand you right), they will remain there. I asked this about the po files, because my po folders are / were empty, and I was wondering when I learned that mo files are removed, if the same might happen to the po files, I didn't know first, whether the files have been downloaded to this folder and may be removed / moved then or whether they were not be downloaded. Now I mean to know they were never been downloaded.

So, then I have to upload the mo files I downloaded from the svn server to the g2data/locale/ folders (but in which ones) or to the locale folder of the checkout modules (but I guess there is no possibility to let them remove automatically to the right g2data/locale/ folders)?

Yes, I had understood that, I plan to rewrite / translate (some of) the English po files (not existing in German language) for the front end, to change some translations of the German po files to fit my needs.

So I can't take an existing po file and modify it? I have to create a new one even if I want to modify some / a few sentences?

Yes, I have / had always have all the languages selected. Tried a few times.

Many thanks for your efforts.

How do I compile? E.g. when I modify the file de.po in the po folder, may be some sentences to be changed, then I save the file...and which name have I change to the correct name? And the mo file in /modules/checkout/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES I will have to copy to /g2data_fotografiee/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES then? Is that right?

Yes, I had read this, but it was to complicated for me to understand. As I found out then, working on the po files / compiling is very easy with the right program.

So, if I have understood right, I can download all checkout modules from the svn server (and there are exactly the same files which I would download with a “usual” installation in the repo list, is this right?), then upload to the modules folder and - then go on the usual way - with the installation in “Plugins”? And there will be any difference to the way installing it automatically in the repo (besides there will be any missing files in my checkout folders)?

Hi alecmyers,

I am very pleased about your help.

Do you think you could see an opportunity to let me know, whether your test regarding the download button went well? I would appreciate it very much. I always receive a "Security Violation" on different systems.

Thank you very much for testing and your efforts, alecmyers,

It works.

Don't know, what I could have missed before. May be it is CheckoutPDFInvoiceStatusPlugin.zip which caused a problem...

Do you mean checkoutpdfinvoice? Or is there a connection to checkoutpdfdownload?

if ($form['formName'] == 'AdminOrder') { ...}

I don't know completely yet, what you mean by this: when I remove

if ($form['formName'] == 'AdminOrder') {
	    return array(null,'modules/checkoutpdfinvoice/templates/StatusPagePDFInvoice.tpl','modules_checkoutpdfinvoice')

it brings me a blanket page.

Removing this works:

if ($form['formName'] == 'AdminOrder')

But I guess, this is not what you mean.

Could now everyone see / get access to each invoice?

Once again, many thanks.

Do I understand right, the red characters must be removed from this excerpt:

    /**
     * @see CheckoutStatusPageInterface_1_0::loadTemplate()
     */
    function loadTemplate(&$template, &$form) {
    
if ($form['formName'] == 'AdminOrder') {
	    return array(null,'modules/checkoutpdfinvoice/templates/StatusPagePDFInvoice.tpl','modules_checkoutpdfinvoice');
	}
	
	return array (null, null, null);
    }

    /**
     * @see CheckoutStatusPageInterface_1_0:handleRequest()
     */

So this remains:

    /**
     * @see CheckoutStatusPageInterface_1_0::loadTemplate()
     */
    function loadTemplate(&$template, &$form) {
    
        
	    return array(null,'modules/checkoutpdfinvoice/templates/StatusPagePDFInvoice.tpl','modules_checkoutpdfinvoice');
	
	return array (null, null, null);
    }

    /**
     * @see CheckoutStatusPageInterface_1_0:handleRequest()
     */

Thank you, I am very happy to have the download option running now with your help.

How can I prevent the po, respectively the mo files I modified from overwriting in the easiest way when updating in the future? To put them in a folder named local - as it be can done with e.g. PDFOut.inc and CheckoutPDFInvoiceStatusPlugin.class - doesn't work, if I see right.

The e-mails sent by checkout to the admin and customer have the prefix: wwwrun. E.g.

. And the (only and simplest) way to replace this prefix e.g. with my real address or any other characters is to insert them in the "Email address to send order status notifications from" field?

Very well, thanks for your support, all is running fine at the moment.

Editing the background pdf is easy (and given the silly logo I put in, to be expected.) Just use something like Adobe Illustrator (you can download a free 30-day trial from the Adobe website) or any one of a number of pdf editors (I'm sure someone can recommend a FOSS one, if you prefer). Save the new version with the same file-name.

The spacings/margins etc of the actual content - well, here's an admission: I didn't write the module expecting it to be of much use to others, or to be put under much scrutiny - so it's not particularly well written, more sort of 'hacked together'. Having said that, there's nothing complicatd there, most of the margins, font-sizes etc are set as variables which you can adjust. The file you want to edit is PDFOut.inc. If you have any specific questions ("what does this bit do?") feel free to ask them here and I'll do my best to answer.

It goes quite well thanks to your explanation...

Could you tell me, how I can insert here "Bestellnummer:": e.g.:

Bestellnummer: 232

And here "Seite 1 von 3 Seite(n)"

And in the footer, at the end of each page the actual page number and the amount of pages: e.g. "Seite 1 von 3 Seite(n)" (means: page 1 of 3 page(s))

The German date format works fine.

    function writeHeader($transaction,&$pdf) {
	global $gallery;
	$lineHeight = 3.5;
	/* put the date */
	$pdf->Text(140, 55, strftime('%A, %e. %B %Y',$transaction->getDate())); 
	/* order reference  */
	$pdf->Text(156,73,$transaction->getId());
	/* order placed by  */
	$placedBy = PDFOutView::fString($transaction->getFirstName().' '.$transaction->getLastName());
	$pdf->Text(156,80,$placedBy);
	/* page  */
	$pdf->Text(156,87,$pdf->PageNo() . " / {nb}");
	/* addressee */

And: how can I text display one time, e.g. on the first page only and not on each of the pages?

Thank you for your support, all of your instructions worked immediately...besides:

If I write the text on the first (which is the one and only) page in the pdf file, it displays on each page. And the position of the text to be written and displayed once in PDFout.inc I haven’t found yet. I would like have placed some text below the address, the header once.

Still some few questions to bother...

There’s one of the most important points I have disregarded unfortunately: I must have for the internal revenue office an invoice number in each single invoice (and e-mail would be good, also) incremented by one (without leaving out one of these incremented invoice numbers), perhaps near the order number. E.g.
first customer no. 1,
second customer no. 2,
second customer’s second order no. 3
and so on.

Can this (hopefully) be done in an easy way?

How can I make in the pdf invoice the space between the first image and the top margin and the space between the last image and the bottom margin bigger?

How can I limit the width of the thumbs displayed in the invoice (like it is done in the e-mail), so that a panorama image has the same width like e.g. an image with the aspect ratio 2:3? I think it can be done here, but...

if (method_exists($thumb, 'fetchPath')) {
		    list ($ret, $path) = $thumb->fetchPath();
		    if (!$ret and $path) {
			$printWidth = $thumbHeight * $thumb->getWidth() / $thumb->getHeight();
			$pdf->Image($path,$col1X+($thumbWidth-$printWidth)/2,$curY-$thumbHeight/2,0,$thumbHeight,'JPEG');
		    }