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May 11, 2015 at 3:05 am

Hi,

The invoice in EE3 was not intended to be used in that way, which is why the dates are displayed differently, but it can be changed relatively easily.

OK, you will need to modify the Invoice gateway template, but it’s not too hard, just some file copying and a single line of editing.

The easiest way to do this is to copy the entire Invoice folder (wp-content/plugins/event-espresso/gateways/invoice) over to the wp-uploads/espresso/gateways folder (if the gateways folder doesn’t exist here, create it).

Then edit the wp-content/uploads/espresso/gateways/invoice/template.php file.

On line 115 you should see:

$pdf->Cell(180, 0, pdftext(__('Date: ', 'event_espresso') . date(get_option('date_format'))), 0, 1, 'R'); //Set invoice date

Change this to read:

$pdf->Cell(180, 0, pdftext(__('Date: ', 'event_espresso') . date(get_option('date_format'), strtotime($date) )), 0, 1, 'R'); //Set invoice date

This will then use the attendees registration date for the invoice date.

May 11, 2015 at 11:23 am

Andreas,

Here’s some example code for the invoice that you can use. It will first check to see if there is a payment date (in case payment hasn’t been made yet), then print the date if a payment was applied:

//Set the payment date
if (!empty($payment_date)) {
	$pdf->Cell(180, 0, pdftext(__('Payment Date: ', 'event_espresso') . $payment_date), 0, 1, 'R');
} else {
	$pdf->Ln(10);
}

May 11, 2015 at 6:21 pm

Hi Andreas, the sample code that Josh shared would replace the code around line 115. Your code editor may have the line as a little different so just check for the sample code that Dean shared and then replace it.

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Lorenzo