Barcode on delivery note with VM IDnR Addon

[webmastergreg]

Hello,

first of all, thank you very much for this awesome plugin (VM IDnR Addon) that is perfect for our needs.

So my goal is to have on the Delivery note a barcode (C39) for a concatenation of the $a['order_id'] and $a['delivery_id'].
Because we already scan our shipping ID (TNT) but we also need to scan the Reference of the Delivery note to fill the field in our TNT dashboard.

So I've seen that the TCPDF barcode call was already here in plugins/phocapdf/virtuemart.php and I tweak it just a little bit, and managed to have a barcode on the footer.

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			//$barcode = '4483-499';
		// define barcode style
		$style = array(
    	'text' => true,
    	'label' => $barcode,
    	'font' => 'helvetica',
    	'fontsize' => 8,
    	'stretchtext' => 3
			);

			if (!empty($barcode)) {
				$this->Ln($line_width);
				$barcode_width = round(($this->getPageWidth() - $ormargins['left'] - $ormargins['right'])/3);
				$this->write1DBarcode($barcode, 'C39', $this->GetX(), $cur_y + $line_width, $barcode_width, (($this->getFooterMargin() / 3) - $line_width), 0.3, $style, 'N');	
			}

That's ok, but now we need to feed the barcode with the goods $a['order_id'] and $a['delivery_id'] so I tried :
in: plugins/phocapdf/virtuemart/virtuemartpdfoutput.php line399

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$a['orderdel_c39']  = $this->getBarC39( $a['orderdel_c39'] );

($a['orderdel_c39'] is the concatened result that I want)

With this on line 233 of the virtuemart.php

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	function getBarC39($bc) {
			//$barcode = $this->getBarC39();
		// define barcode style
		$style = array(
    	'text' => true,
    	'label' => $bc,
    	'font' => 'helvetica',
    	'fontsize' => 8,
    	'stretchtext' => 3
			);

			if (!empty($bc)) {
				$this->Ln($line_width);
				$barcode_width = round(($this->getPageWidth() - $ormargins['left'] - $ormargins['right'])/3);
				$this->write1DBarcode($bc, 'C39', $this->GetX(), $cur_y + $line_width, $barcode_width, (($this->getFooterMargin() / 3) - $line_width), 0.3, $style, 'N');	
			}
			return $bc;
		}

So yes it works, but barcode appear on the very top left of the PDF.

Could you please advice about the best method to use to get this work correctly please ?
I think I miss something....very simple, but I'm bit confused about which file is the king in this issue.

Thanks in advance.

[Jan]

Hi, unfortunatelly, I have no experiences with the barcode and positioning of elements needs to be done per tests (set the position and test if it fits your needs )

Jan