@Olly I believe the $order_details contains the order details required to build the string I need for the Wireless Printer.

After reviewing the Goodcom documentation it’s apparent I need to create a custom string to save in the .txt file supported by the Wireless Printer I don’t expect the templates would be generating at the moment the documentation explains an example string E.g #01*1*10005*1;Chicken,3.00;4;Tom;Address;15:47 03-08-10;113;7;cod:;**Comment#

Is there documentation of the order_details and arrays ordervars, customer, order, summary, localization so I can refer to this and build the string?

@proof Hi Proof, excellent thank you!

@proof

thanks for chiming in.
after all i can only give abstract advice as i know nothing about these printers so anything more concrete would be appreciated
cheers

@proof Hey proof! Thank you very very much!

We are struggling to connect to the wireless printer interface, we navigate to the screen that displays “Terminal ID: 426 Please set the parameters on the browser.” on the wireless printer.

How did you access the interface to update the settings? It appears Goodcom use the “Remote Terminal” program to update the settings?

On a side note, in the scenario of a pizza shop which has “extra toppings” where would you include this information in the $txt string? Would you add it after the item name in the name section? Something like ;$item[title] . ” ” . $item[extra];

Thanks again!

@proof You’re a legend! Thank you! I have no idea why they didn’t provide us this link… lol It’s not in the instruction booklet :\

As a sidenote while I am here, I would also suggest something a bit more dynamic regarding the “all other order details” as they are variable and not always the same everywhere
perhaps something along these lines (will no doubt need tweaking according to what goodcom printers really need, but as a starting point)

$additional_data = array();
/* customer data */
$customer_data = array();
foreach($order[customer] as $k=>$v){
$customer_data[$k]=$v['value'];//or value_formatted
}
$additional_data[] = '{'.implode('};{', $customer_data).'}';//tweak as required
/* order vars */
$ordervars= array();
foreach($order[ordervars] as $k=>$v){
$ordervars[$k]=$v['value'];//or value_formatted
}
$additional_data[] = '{'.implode('};{', $ordervars).'}';//tweak as required
/* add $order[summary] too (this will always be 2 levels deep to account for multiple taxrates for example) so somewhat as above but a 2 level/nested foreach loop*/
/* then put it together - assuming it needs "*" between things - probably needs tweaking too as i dont know what those printers need but I would think one gets the idea*/
$txt .= implode('*', $additional_data);

@proof
ah, i know where you are going wrong here regarding my note to the benefits of //declare new ORDER class and assign order details to var order and assuming your action hook usage is as you posted it

it should be

add_action( 'wppizza_on_order_execute', 'print_order', 10, 3);
/*or if you want */
add_action( 'wppizza_on_order_execute', 'print_order', 1, 3);

not
add_action( 'wppizza_on_order_execute', 'print_order', 1);
otherwise the 2nd and 3rd parameter will not be available to you !!!

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