automatically generate invoices in a folder

[agm65]

Hello,

 

is there a way to automatically generate invoices and make them available in a folder for FTP access by other sw?

 

If yes, can I force the file name? For example, instead of the invoice number to use <ORDER_NUMBER> .pdf?

 

Thank you

[Simone Salerno]

Do you want to bulk generate them for all your orders or setup an automatic job for the next ones?

To make it automatic to save all your orders' pdfs, you need to edit root/tools/tcpdf/tcpdf.php:

protected function sendOutputData($data, $length) {
    if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']) OR empty($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'])) {
        // the content length may vary if the server is using compression
        header('Content-Length: '.$length);
    }
              
    //save to disk if it is a PDF about an order  
    $id_order = Tools::getValue('id_order');
    if ($id_order)
        file_put_contents(_PS_ROOT_DIR_."your/path/to/pdfs/order-{$id_order}.pdf", $data);

    echo $data;
}

Edited August 27, 2015 by SimoneS93 (see edit history)

[agm65]

 

Do you want to bulk generate them for all your orders or setup an automatic job for the next ones?

To make it automatic to save all your orders' pdfs, you need to edit root/tools/tcpdf/tcpdf.php:

protected function sendOutputData($data, $length) {
    if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']) OR empty($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'])) {
        // the content length may vary if the server is using compression
        header('Content-Length: '.$length);
    }
              
    //save to disk if it is a PDF about an order  
    $id_order = Tools::getValue('id_order');
    if ($id_order)
        file_put_contents(_PS_ROOT_DIR_."your/path/to/pdfs/order-{$id_order}.pdf", $data);

    echo $data;
}

Thank you SimoneS93,

 

yes I want an automatic job that generates invoices when an order is ok (and not when an user clicks on pdf icons)

I've a cron process that gets (by FTP) all orders (CSV files) and I want to make available all invoices also.

 

ex

/docs_folder/

- orders.csv

- invoice-0001.pdf

- invoice-0003.pdf

...

- invoice-<order_number>.pdf

...

[Simone Salerno]

To generate pdf when order is ok you must override PaymentModule::validateOrder, something like this:

public function validateOrder($function_arguments_here) {
    $ret = parent::validateOrder($function_arguments_here);

    //call AdminPdfController as if you clicked the PDF icon
    //you may need to copy-paste here the code and pass a different parameter to $pdf->render()
    //to prevent downloading the PDF. Cant test now
    if ($this->currentOrder) {
        $_GET['id_order'] = $this->currentOrder->id;
        AdminPdfController::processGenerateInvoicePdf();
    }

    return $ret;
}

[agm65]

 

To generate pdf when order is ok you must override PaymentModule::validateOrder, something like this:

public function validateOrder($function_arguments_here) {
    $ret = parent::validateOrder($function_arguments_here);

    //call AdminPdfController as if you clicked the PDF icon
    //you may need to copy-paste here the code and pass a different parameter to $pdf->render()
    //to prevent downloading the PDF. Cant test now
    if ($this->currentOrder) {
        $_GET['id_order'] = $this->currentOrder->id;
        AdminPdfController::processGenerateInvoicePdf();
    }

    return $ret;
}

Oh, thank you!