Simple Invoices - Forum

Hey Joanie

which version of Simple invoices are you running?

can you check the there is a folder called pdf in the library directory? - also does it have files in it - might no of been copied OK etc..

if you open http://localhost/simpleinvoices/library/pdf/demo/ you should be something similar to http://simpleinvoices.org/beta/library/pdf/demo/

question: does the rest of Simple Invoices work OK?

Cheers

Justin

Hello Justin,

Yes there are 2 files in http://localhost/simpleinvoices/library/pdf/demo/
html2ps.php and index.php
All folders have files inside, but as mentioned, the utf-8.map file is missing like for someone else who left a comment on the homepage.

The version I'm installing is the one that I downloaded from the homepage.

I have not started using SimpleInvoices yet as I wanted to finish the whole installation process first. I am following line by line the installation guide and don't want to do any mistake. The only thing that I could not do is chown some folder, I was hoping it would work without that because I don't have anyway to chown. I can only change the numbers for the permission (chmod) if I understood how everything works.

Hope you can tell me what to do next. Thanks in advance, sincerely,
Joanie

Hey Joanie

i say just skip this pdf/demo step of the instruction and continue with the rest of the setup - if your very lucky it'll just work

let us know how you go

Cheers

Justin

Hello,
OK, I'm following the instructions of the rest of the installation guide.
I even found a way to change the user email and password here: http://simpleinvoices.org/forum/discussion/362/#Item_10
I managed creating a few items, a client, a biller and an invoice
Then I tried exporting to PDF and I got the same error as I already described before.
Please help me find a solution.
Thanks in advance, sincerely,
Joanie

Hey Joanie,

you may want to try installing the latest 'beta' of our next main release, refer: http://simpleinvoices.org/blog/simple_invoices_2009.1_beta_4_release

the pdf system has changed - so it may solve your problems

let me know if this works - if it doesn't i'll see what else we can do to solve it

Cheers

Justin

Hello,

The upgrade part in the documentation is very unclear to me, so I unziped the beta 4 version in the same simpleinvoices folder and it screwed the whole folder. I had to delete it.

Then I thought I could just install from the beta 4 version but when I want to follow the guidelines of the documentation, the beta version does not have a cache folder and there are different folders names. I am now completely lost.

The only file I have from the version that I installed previously is the config.php file, which is not available in the beta version, there is a config.ini file.
I tried to update the config.ini with the same information that I had updated the config.php file but now I get a blank page when I connect to /simpleinvoices instead of the login page.

Please tell me the next step, I was able to install some other webapplications (like limesurvey for example) with no problems, I don't see why I have problems with this one. I really hope you can help me.

Thanks a lot, sincerely,
Joanie

Hello Justin,

Is there a way to work it out of the blank page?
I have copied the saved config.php in the /config folder but that didn't change anything.

Would you advise me to restart everything from scratch with the 20080629 version that I was installing when I had the 1st problem with pdf export files?

Thanks to let me know, sincerely,
Joanie

After searching the forums, I noticed that PDO was not enabled on my web server. I asked support to enable it and now I get the login page :)
Though I get a blank page when I click on the Extensions button in the Settings.

In the meantime, I have also recreated the tables as you said they were different in the beta release. I noticed that in the previous version, there was a name field in the si_user table, and there no name field any more. It would be good to have it and name the users I think.

Back to PDF, I get the PDF of Google all right. I wanted to try another page of my website and I get:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14120 bytes) in /simpleinvoices/library/pdf/css.ruleset.class.php on line 204
For some pages it will work and some others not.

All together I think, I'm getting there and I'm quite happy about it :)
Sincerely, Joanie

I get a lot of errors when I try to export an invoice to PDF:
I saved them in this file: fairyjo.com/simpleinvoices/sierrors.html

Blank pages when clicking on Dashboard and on Extensions.

Please let me know what to do with the PDF export, the google.com page worked well.
Thanks in advance, sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

looks like your phps ERROR_REPORTING is on E_STRICT

you can change this to E_ERROR and should remove most of the 'Strict Standards' errors

if you are on beta4 - edit config/config.ini and go to the set
debug.error_reporting = E_ERROR
- else locate your php.ini file and set ERROR_REPORTING to E_ERROR

re allowed memory
- you will need to adjust the maximum memory for your PHP (in the php.ini file) to 64M
memory_limit = 64M

let me know if you can make the above changes and how it goes

cheers

justin

Thanks Justin,

I could change the config.ini and all standard errors are gone.

I don't have access to my php.ini so I asked my hosting support to change it for me like they enabled PDO yesterday.

Will let you know if this solves the probelm after the change is done.
Sincerely,
Joanie

Finally... I can export to pdf :)
Thank you for your help.

Since the modification in the config.ini, now I get this error when I click on Dashboard, before the change I had a blank page:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Acl_Exception' with message 'Resource 'index' not found' in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php:297 Stack trace: #0 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php(691): Zend_Acl->get('index') #1 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php(7): Zend_Acl->isAllowed('administrator', 'index', NULL) #2 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/init.php(138): include_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #3 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/index.php(22): require_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php on line 297

And similar error when I click on Extensions, I also had a blank page before changing config.ini:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Acl_Exception' with message 'Resource 'extensions' not found' in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php:297 Stack trace: #0 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php(691): Zend_Acl->get('extensions') #1 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php(7): Zend_Acl->isAllowed('administrator', 'extensions', NULL) #2 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/init.php(138): include_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #3 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/index.php(22): require_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php on line 297

I also get the same kind of error whenever I click on an interrogation mark for help:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Acl_Exception' with message 'Resource 'documentation' not found' in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php:297 Stack trace: #0 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php(691): Zend_Acl->get('documentation') #1 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php(7): Zend_Acl->isAllowed('administrator', 'documentation', NULL) #2 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/init.php(138): include_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #3 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/index.php(22): require_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php on line 297


In the product/custom fields/... lists, I get strange characters when I use French accented words for example: e acute (=

Hey Joanie,

refer my replies re acl in this post http://simpleinvoices.org/forum/discussion/800/

re accents
- i've made some changes to the code that 'may' fix this up - will get you to test when the next beta release of Simple Invoices is released

Cheers

Justin

Hello Justin,

I added the 3 lines of code you propose in that discussion, I also tried with just the 2 first lines.
But with both solution I get this error even on the login page:
Fatal error: Call to a member function add() on a non-object in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/acl.php on line 5

I added the lines at the top of the page, is there a specific place where to add them instead?

Thanks again for your help.
Sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie,

you may want to try the newly released beta 5 version

refer: http://simpleinvoices.org/blog/simple_invoices_2009.1_beta_5_released

let us know how you go

cheers

justin

Hello Justin,

I just installed beta 5, the French accents problems are solved (PDF export works all right too) and I don't get any more errors with the dashboard button.

Though, I still get an error when clicking on the Extensions button:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Acl_Exception' with message 'Resource 'extensions' not found' in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php:297 Stack trace: #0 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php(691): Zend_Acl->get('extensions') #1 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php(7): Zend_Acl->isAllowed('administrator', 'extensions', NULL) #2 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/init.php(162): include_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #3 /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/index.php(26): require_once('/home/fairyjo/p...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/library/Zend/Acl.php on line 297

This time I changed the language to French, some problems here:
- the French version has some bad translations, sometimes with instant messaging vocabulary
- apostrophes(') are preceded with a back-slash (\) in descriptions and lists... Eg: d'items becomes d\'items
- The lists show this message: "Processing, please wait" but no list will show up at all, the message hangs there for over 10 minutes, then I gave up, it usually came in seconds. When I change the language back to English, the problem is removed.

Is it possible to use French invoicing templates with English language set for the system?
I have to number my invoices differently, just 1, 2, 3 is not enough, is it possible to make the Invoice No field editable (or maybe use one of the Custom fields and place it instead of the Invoice No field on the invoice print out)?

Thank you so much for your continuing help, of course if you need some more testing on my side, I'm ready to help you with that too.
Sincerely,
Joanie

Thanks Joanie,

re extensions
- thanks for pointing this out - will fix this up
- note: there arent any greatly usefull extensions available at the moment so your not mimssing out on anything just yet

re french \ etc
- i'll test this out tonight and review

re bad translation
- feel free to review the french translation file in ./lang/fr/lang.php and fix it up if possible

re invoice number
- what you can do is create a custom field for invoice called 'Invoice number" and edit the invoice template to show this field where the {$invoice.id} is normally shown

Cheers

Justin

Hello Justin,

I am working on a better translation of the French language file. I noticed that it must be an old file as it is missing some "lines" that are in the English language file. I have added those lines in the French file and translated some of them already. This takes quite some time since I'm checking the English file for each translation as some translated text sounds quite weird in French. I will send you the new French file when I'm done if you like, so you can add it to the next version.

It will take me some time to understand the template file too. I hope to manage having it show what I need.

Question: is it possible to change the way numbers look in the system and for invoicing especially? In my country (Switzerland), we use an apostrophe to separate the thousands and a dot instead of the comma for the cents, it looks like this: 2'174.55 (instead of 2.174,55). How do I change this?

I found a few disturbing things in the reports of Beta 5, here are my comments:
- most numbers have 6 digits after the comma, 2 would be enough in my opinion.
- the tables are not aligned, eg: take the Product sales report, the lines below the headers have a "middle cell", meaning the cell with the number is not aligned in the right, then the last line will show the total in a cell that's more on the right than the "middle cells" (hope I'm not to confusing here).
- in the Product sales report, the

re d\'items
- just checked - for whatever reason the ' has a \ in front of it in the french language files
- when you do your translation just remove them and all should be well

re reports
- unfortunately reports needs alot of work to make them look all nice
- in the db all values are to 6 decimal places and Simple Invoices just formats to whatever you want - is set in config.ini - see precision section

re processing
- i only get this on the Payments table - all others work OK with french
- what pages did you get it on?

cheers

justin

Hello,

I wanted to double check what pages I had the Processing please wait message on, I think I had this message on all the lists.
Just tried to change the language to French again, after the page tried to reload, it became blank.
So I turned errors on E_ALL and reloaded the page again, this is the error I get now:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/lang/fr/lang.php on line 75

The index.php page will give me the same error, I can't access anything in the application anymore.

Also, I looked in the file and on the config wiki page, but could not find where I can change the decimal length in config.ini. Could you please give me some more precision?

Thanks again,
Joanie

hey joanie,

re error
- check out line 75 on your french file - might not be correctly formatted

re decimal
- sorry about the confusion
- reports can't be set to 2 decimal places just yet - no matter the configuration
-- its a work in progress
- and the config wiki page needs an update from me :)

if you can't access the application anymore - open up phpmyadmin and go to the simple invoices database - select the si_system_defaults table and change the lang row to equal 'en-gb' and should be able to use application ok

let me know how you go

cheers

justin

Hi Justin,

Thanks for that, I found a " too much at line 75, after I corrected that, I got access to the login page again but with the following errors at the top of the page:
Notice: Undefined index: action in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php on line 7
Notice: Constant BROWSE already defined in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/modules/auth/login.php on line 13

Then I tried to login anyway and these came up:
Notice: Undefined index: action in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php on line 7
Notice: Constant BROWSE already defined in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/modules/auth/login.php on line 13
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php:7) in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/modules/auth/login.php on line 123

I have not modified the login.php file, nor the check_permission.php. What went wrong since last time when I was able to login?

Hope you can help again, sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

turn errors back to E_ERROR in config.ini and set the display errors to 0
- should resolve this

let me know how you go

cheers

justin

Hello Justin,

In fact, I had tried with E_ERROR already, I just modified both display errors to 0 but the same errors still show and I still cannot login :(
Any other idea?

Sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

if your getting errors like
Notice: Undefined index:

this most likely indicates that your php.ini is still on E_ALL or E_STRICT

try locating your php.ini file and change the error_reporting in that file to E_ERROR, restart apache and try again

hopefully this will resolve the issue

let us know how you go

cheers

justin

Hi,

In fact, I don't personnally have a access to php.ini, I have to ask my host's support to do things for me.

I am really wondering if that will help, because, below the error lines, the login form is displayed and I can fill it in and press the login button. Only it doesn't let me in and I get a third error line, again above the login form.

Before, when there were errors on the page but the page displayed below it did not prevent clicking and going to the next page.

So I'm going to ask support for that change, but I think there's something else that prevents me from logging in. What about the "warning" message that I get after trying to login?
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/check_permission.php:7) in /home/fairyjo/public_html/simpleinvoices/modules/auth/login.php on line 123

Any other idea? Sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

pretty sure if you get php.ini updated to be E_ERROR it should resolve this login issue

let us know how you go

cheers

justin

Good morning Justin,

I had the confirmation last night from support that error_reporting in php.ini is on E_ERROR.
I just tried to connect again to the login page and I get the exact same errors, when the page displays and when I click on login after filling in the fields.

I really wonder what went wrong, any other idea?
Sincerely,
Joanie

hmm..

as long as php/ini and config.ini are on E_ERROR should be ok

only thing i can think of is it your login detail have non-latin characters in them - some people reported that emails with accents have issues logging in

are you using the normal [email protected] login or a new user you created?

cheers

justin

Hello Justin,

Sorry for the delay, there are no accented or non-latin characters in my login or password, fortunately I am French speaking and only French or English words. Though I changed the login email address of the demo account to my own and the password too. But honestly I don't think this is the problem, it was working before. Maybe I should try a new fresh installation again, once more should not be a problem. Do you have an new beta coming out soon? I could wait and try that with all the updates that I did manually here above already in the new beta. I need the invoicing system by end of september, until then I can try your betas, I do think that SimpleInvoices is just perfect for me... when it will work.

So do you advise me to try a fresh install now or wait til the next beta release?

Thanks a lot again, sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

you can try a fresh install - may fix it

re next beta
- it all is well i should release one in a week or so

let us know hwo you go

cheers

justin

Thanks Justin, then I think I'm going to wait for the next Beta release and test it when it's ready.
Cheers, Joanie

Hello Justin,

I tried upgrading from Beta 5 to 2009 RC1, edited config.ini but I got a blank page and it couldn't find out where that came from.
So I made a new installation and everything is working perfectly fine in English (PDF, email, new invoice/item/customer/...)

But as soon as I change the language to French... I get the "Processing, please wait" message for the next "list" page I try to open (I tried many times and each time I click on a page that has a list I get that message), then it won't even let me change to another page, fortunately I could use the back button to change the language back to English.

What could be the cause? as I said the English version is working great, I had no error at all, even though I did like before and change the email address and password. Please help.

Thanks in advance, sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

the french translation has some problems - its got html characters in the translation and the 'list' pages don't like that
- as far as im aware this is the problem

the translation file ./lang/fr/lang.php needs updating

if you have some time you can try updating the translation - if it works please post the new file here

cheers

justin

Hello Justin,
OK, I will remove all the é etc and replace them with the accented characters, if that's the problem.
I already started working on the french file some time ago as some translations were incorrect.
Sincerely,
Joanie

I replaced the fr/lang.php file with the new one (without the html tags) but now all accented characters appear as an interrogation mark inside a diamond-shape.
Though it seems to to solve the "Processing Please wait" problem.
Is there a way to show the accented characters without the html tags?
Thanks,
Joanie

hey joanie

thanks for the update

re diamond shape character
- can you try using the just released 2009.1 RC and see if it still does it with your frech file

let us know how you go

cheers

justin

Hi Justin,
I am using 2009 RC 1 freshly installed last Wednesday with my french file (today). The diamond shape is the current status. I guess that's not a good news for you, sorry.
Joanie

thanks

any chance you can email me justin _at_ kelly org au your updated french file so i can test

cheers

justin

The file has been sent.
Hope that will help, sincerely,
Joanie

thanks

re "diamond shape"
- forgot to ask - is this only in fields in the 'manage' pages
-- ie. customers name (if has accent) is the list of customers/invoices etc..
--- ie . http://simpleinvoices.org/demo/index.php?module=invoices&view=manage

if so please add a customer/biller etc.. (with an accent) into our demo server (http://simpleinvoices.org/demo/) and i'll see if i can fix the problem

thanks again

Cheers

Justin

Hello Justin,

I created a biller "

thanks joanie

i just wanted to see if the accents would show ok in the list of billers, refer: http://simpleinvoices.org/demo/index.php?module=billers&view=manage

looks ok

i'll upload with your new french translation and test again

thanks again!

cheers

justin

hey joanie

i've uploaded your new file to the demo site and see the diamond issue

this is most likely caused by the file being encoded/saved in ANSI and not UTF8 format

you can download NotePad++ and in the format section change it to UTF8

if you can resave and email back would be great!!!
- note: you may need to re-edit the accented words

cheers

justin

just ignore resending the file

i've managed to convert it to utf8

but get the processign error again - is a problem with xml and accents

i'll work to change the system from xml to json and it might make the 'manage' pages happy

cheers

justin

Hi Justin,

I have the same problem and one more not related (I suppose) by Joanie: for example, the accented products browsed in "Products sold in total by Product" show also hieroglyphs ?? (well, I can't show you how they are)

Cheers

Jos

Hi Justin,

Have you had a chance in making the "manage" pages happy with the French file?
Do you think that will be fixed for the final 2009.1 stable release?

Sincerely,
Joanie

hey joanie

i'd like to say yes - but i plan on releasing 2009.1 this weekend - so any french fix wont work :(

cheers

justin

Hi Justin,

OK, then I guess my "clients" will have to do with English. I don't mind, I even prefer English, but they are French speaking...

Will it be possible to fix it after 2009.1 release? How?

Will 2009.1 have the security fix for accessing config.php file? (I saw that in another thread and noticed that mine was accessible too).

Sincerely, Joanie

Hi Justin,

I finally got to try installing 2009.1, fresh install with empty DB, twice with the latest code downloaded today, but I get this error:
""
500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
""
It never happened before, I was able to install the release candidate and other beta versions exactly the same way and had no problem at that early installation step.
Do you have any idea why this happens and how to fix it?

Many thanks in advance again, sincerely,
Joanie