Comments on: Adding Customer Comments on Invoice PDFs in Magento (using OneStepCheckout)

By: emon

emon — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:42:46 +0000

hey thanks for the posts. Really helpful.

By: vunguyen

vunguyen — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:41:54 +0000

Thank you very much. we go it working great!

By: Airbox

Airbox — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:12:17 +0000

thanks christian! we got it working great! if you or any of your users are interested, here is the code to display it on the order email templates: Order Comments: {{var order.getOnestepcheckoutCustomercomment()}}

By: Cristi

Cristi — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:27:36 +0000

Here are a few things to check:
- place an order and add customer comments – i’m assuming they’re enabled from the admin
- check the order in the admin and make sure they appear on the view order page
- if they don’t, check the database to see if the comments get stored
- if they do, see if the field is still named “onestepcheckout_customercomments” – it really important, cause right now you’re probably calling $order->getOnestepcheckoutCustomerComments()
- if everything so far looks good, but the comments still don’t show up on the invoice, add a print_R($order); die(); and try printing an invoice – check the dump and see if the comments are in there.
- if they are, it’s a pdf/spooling problem – most probably a color or coordinate issue

By: Airbox

Airbox — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:52:10 +0000

No error message, just nothing being displayed after the order totals. You are correct, it looks like nothing has changed since the 1.3 versions of magento, but maybe the module for OneStepCheckout??? I am happy to contact you via your contact form on the site if you like i can send you the file that we created and you can take a look at if you re able.

By: Cristi

Cristi — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:40:08 +0000

This was developed on Mage 1.3.x, but I don’t see any major differences between Invoice.php v1.3 and v.1.4. insertOscComments should stay the same and should work and the call to it should go after insert totals.
What’s the error message saying?

By: Airbox

Airbox — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:48:40 +0000

thank you for this great article! we have tried to implement this solution for one of our clients as well, but have not been able to get it to work, do you know if this will work on 1.4.0.1? if so would it be possible for you to post your full working invoice.php file so that we can compare ours to see if we have made a mistake?

By: Manas Andhare

Manas Andhare — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:54:18 +0000

hey thanks,

this has worked and helped me a lot to print a new field in invoice pdf

but one thing I modified was function insertOscComments(&$page, $order) to function insertOscComments($page, $order).
no ‘&’ in the first argument

By: Bruno Alexandre

Bruno Alexandre — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:16:11 +0000

It’s not there by default, but I think it’s a failure from Magento… There are extensions that add it to the Order page, like:

http://cl.ly/1gGT

and in my Abstract.php page I did this:

http://pastebin.com/JHsjRaEs

It’s easy to change the 3 lines into infinite lines, just by refactoring the code, when the client pays for it, I will do it and place in the same link the correct code

In the spirit of sharing open source, I hope this helps someone.

Once again Chris, Thank you for the first push as I had no idea where to start

By: Cristi

Cristi — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:37:46 +0000

I can’t seen to find the print button/action, but I assume that it should be the same thing as with the invoice. As far as I remember, at some point one was able to print an order to pdf or html. For both of them those customer comments can be added. In html is simpler and it’s almost identical to editing sales/order/view/tab/info.phtml. For the pdf, it shouldn’t be harder than adding the code from the invoice pdf. This is just the top of my head, so I might be wrong