Member Card - Pdf name - Possible to change

The membership card pdf name when download uses the Joomla username for the PDF Name
Is it possible to change to say the Last name and First Name of the Membership Holder?
The reason I ask is that we download and distribute cards Using the User name is a bit random.
Kind regards
David
 

Hi David

We use username for the filename because only username is unique (and not contains special characters)

If you need to use First Name and Last Name, you would need to customize the code

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan,
I can understand your logic in that user name is unique and so we cannot get duplicate membership cards
Can you point me to where the code is. I was thinking we could replace User name  with Name plus Membership No.  Is  Membership number also unique?
Our members using odd user names like ABC123 rather than something which reflects their real name which makes it hard to find the owner when we download the card and it has ABC123 as the file name
Kind regards
David

 

Hi David

Please try to look at components/com_osmembership/controller/profile.php and try to modify code from there. Look at the line 190:

Here, we append username and plan_id to generate name of PDF file. You can change it to meet your need

Tuan

Hi Tuan,
Thanks for pointing to the right code
I tried changing the code to replace 'username' with 'last_name' 
However,  when I download a membership card it was still the same ie usernane-planid.pdf
I think the reason is that the PDF name for the membership card is generated when the membership is created.
So this change in code would only apply to any new memberships after the code was changed and not to existing memberships 
Am I correct?
Kind regards
David

Hi David

I forgot to ask: Where you download member card? The code I'm talking about will work for the case users download member card from their user profile. Maybe you are downloading member cards from administrator area?

Tuan

Hi Tuan,
Yes, we are downloading cards for our members. 
I assume by your question that code you changed was only for members to down load their own card?
Kind regards
David

For backend, please try to edit code in the file administrator/components/com_osmembership/controller/subscription.php. Like 1185, the same code:

Regards,

Tuan

Tuan,
Thank you very much. I replaced 'username' with 'last_name' So Pdf name is now 'LASTNANE_Plan-id' 
So now I should copy my new code to under my Template folder to TEMPLATENAME/html/com_osmembership/???
Also is Plan Name available? It would be nice to replace the digit from plan id with Plan Name.
Kind regards
David
 

Hi David

1. Unfortunately, Plan Name is not available. You need to query database to get plan title if it is really needed (base on ID of the plan_

2. For override, this is not a layout, so you cannot move it to template. Please follow instructions at membershipprodoc.joomservices.com/develo...n-a-controller-class to override that controller (please only override the method, not all method in that class)

Tuan