Alphabetical order issue

Hi! The PDF invoice plugin does not apply any sorting, but (just like the order in the WooCommerce backend and the email sent to your customer), the items are presented in the order they have been added to the cart.

You can override this with a small code snippet:

add_filter( 'wpo_wcpdf_order_items_data', 'wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_name', 10, 2 );
function wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_name ( $items, $order ) {
	usort($items, function ($a, $b) {
		return strcmp($a['name'], $b['name']);
	});
	return $items;
}

Note that this is not sensitive to any capitalization, it just sorts plain alphabetically.

If you haven’t worked with code snippets (actions/filters) or functions.php before, read this guide: How to use filters

Thanks for your reply.

At the moment we are using the snippet below to order by SKU, but it is ordering by case rather than letter as i mentioned before (see list below snippet), is there a way around this and to order by letters only?

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//Sort items by SKU
add_filter( ‘wpo_wcpdf_order_items_data’, ‘wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_sku’, 10, 2 );
function wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_sku ( $items, $order ) {
usort($items, ‘wpo_wcpdf_sort_by_sku’);
return $items;
}

function wpo_wcpdf_sort_by_sku($a, $b) {
if ($a[‘sku’]==$b[‘sku’]) return 0;
return ($a[‘sku’]<$b[‘sku’])?-1:1;
}
———————

BLFC – Chard – Five colours (Organic) 1
CuMa – Cucumber – Marketmore (Organic) 1
LkMu – Leek – Musselburgh (Organic) 1
OnWL – Spring onion – White Lisbon (Organic) 1
OrPC – Oriental greens – Pak Choi (Organic) 1
XCaZ – Calendula – Traingle Flashback / Zeolights (Organic) 1
mssr – Rocket – Salad rocket (Organic)

Yes, it’s probably better to use strcasecmp instead, very much like my previous example. Try this instead of your own filter:

add_filter( 'wpo_wcpdf_order_items_data', 'wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_sku', 10, 2 );
function wpo_wcpdf_sort_items_by_sku ( $items, $order ) {
	usort($items, function ($a, $b) {
		return strcasecmp($a['sku'], $b['sku']);
	});
	return $items;
}

You can then also remove that second wpo_wcpdf_sort_by_sku function.

I tried that and got a fatal error!:
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Don’t Panic
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syntax error, unexpected ‘&’
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That must have been a copy paste error, there is no & in the snippet above.

Oh thanks, i realised it must be because i copied from the email notification i received and not from your post on this page, seems to be working well now.
Thanks very much for your help.
Fred

Glad to hear that Fred, let us know if you need help with anything else!

If you can spare a moment, we’d appreciate a plugin review here on www.ads-software.com: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/woocommerce-pdf-invoices-packing-slips/reviews/#new-post

Thanks in advance and happy selling!