Magento – How to display only invoice created date in invoice template and format date

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I want to display invoice created date in invoice e-mail template.
I am using {{var invoice.created_at}} to display invoice created date. But it displaying 2015-05-25 13:30:55 . I need to only display date as 25 JUL 2015. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

You can rewrite or copy the code from Mage/Sales/Model/Order/Invoice.php to local folder and add the below function

public function getInvoiceDate()
    {
        $createdAt = $this->getCreatedAt();
        $invoiceDate = date('d M Y', strtotime($createdAt));
        return $invoiceDate;
    }

In invoice email template, get the date as {{var invoice.getInvoiceDate()}}. Like this you can add any number of functions and get from email templates

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To find out how pdf generation works, have a look at these classes:

Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Invoice - pdf header & return document Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Abstract - parent class of the pdf_invoice class where the functions for rendering and inserting details are defined

To add your attribute to the pdf invoice, you need to rewrite this/these classes:

Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Items_Invoice_Default and/or Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Items_Invoice_Grouped where product name, sku, qty, etc. are drawed on the pdf

Magento – Create Invoice Programmatically with Custom Date

To set a time of your choosing for an invoice, you can add this to your script after the invoice is created. This would be most efficient if you have a csv or array to read with your order numbers or ids and the desired time to set.

EDIT:: I added a function to create the invoice, just in case. Your choice on whether or not to use it.

    $stringTime = '2011/06/01';
    $timeToSet = strtotime($stringTime);
    $orderId = '11111'

    createInvoice($orderId);
    setInvoiceDate($orderId , $timeToSet);    

    function createInvoice($orderId){
       //Create Invoice
       $savedOrder = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->loadByIncrementId($orderId);
       $invoice = Mage::getModel('sales/service_order', $savedOrder)->prepareInvoice();

       $invoice->setRequestedCaptureCase(Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Invoice::CAPTURE_OFFLINE);
       $invoice->register();

       $invoice->getOrder()->setCustomerNoteNotify(false);
       $invoice->getOrder()->setIsInProcess(true);

       $transactionSave = Mage::getModel('core/resource_transaction')
           ->addObject($invoice)
           ->addObject($invoice->getOrder());

       $transactionSave->save();
    }

    function setInvoiceDate($id, $time){
            $order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->loadByIncrementId($id);
            $invoiceId = $order->getInvoiceCollection()->getFirstItem()->getIncrementId();
            $invoice = Mage::getModel('sales/order_invoice')->loadByIncrementId($invoiceId);
            $invoice->setCreatedAt($time);
            $invoice->save();
    }

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