* fix(pdf): stop an unresolvable template taking the PDF route down
RealisticDemoSeeder::seedEstimate() never set template_name, while seedInvoice()
has always set invoice1. Every demo estimate therefore had '', so
findFormattedTemplate() returned null and EstimateService did $template['custom']
on it -- a 500 on the estimate PDF route, on either driver, since the exception
is thrown before a driver is reached. That is the "Unable to load document
preview" people were seeing.
The seeder now sets estimate1, but seeding was only how this surfaced. The stored
name is validated when a document is saved through the UI and nowhere else:
seeders, imports, recurring-invoice copies and rows predating that validation all
bypass it, and a template can also be deleted from disk after the fact. A name
that cannot be resolved should fall back to the default design, not take the
route down.
PdfTemplateUtils::resolveView() -- already the resolver for payment receipts and
reports -- gains an optional fallback and tries each candidate as custom then
built-in. Both document services collapse to a single call and can no longer
index null. The fallback logs a warning, so a bad name stays visible rather than
being silently swapped.
Also casts two nulls in GeneratesPdfTrait: an address line or custom field that
was never filled in reaches htmlspecialchars() and strtr() as null, which every
PDF render was emitting a deprecation for on PHP 8.4 and would be an error on 9.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QmECndmNZwzN65Zz9P87dF
* feat(pdf): a command that measures the two drivers against each other
"The PDF looks different" has been diagnosed by eye every time, because nothing
compares the renderers. Asserting on PDF bytes is useless and rendering through
Gotenberg needs a live service, so the suite has never covered it.
pdf:compare renders each stock template through both drivers and reports the
page box, page count and the bounding box of the text on page one, then flags
any template whose ink lands more than --tolerance points apart. It goes through
the real document services, so it exercises the same shared view data and
template resolution a request would.
Two things it has to get right to be honest:
Comparing designs means persisting the template choice -- InvoiceService reads it
back with Invoice::find($id)->template_name, so assigning in memory silently
compares the same design every row. The run happens inside a transaction that is
always rolled back.
Page numbers are turned off for the duration. They are a Chromium capability with
no dompdf equivalent, so leaving them on puts ink at the foot of every Gotenberg
page and drowns out every difference worth seeing -- which is exactly what the
first run of this command did.
Word positions come from poppler's pdftotext, which is on most dev machines but
not in the app container; without it the command still compares page geometry and
says what it could not check.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QmECndmNZwzN65Zz9P87dF
* fix(pdf): let the two renderers agree on the items table, and drop the shim
Two parts: the stock templates stop doing their own page margins, and the items
table stops relying on a property that does not apply to it.
Page margins. The templates carried their own via `html { margin-top: 50px }`,
which predates page setup owning them. dompdf largely collapses that margin;
Chromium honours it and adds it to the page box, so the same template came out
38px from the top on one renderer and 77px on the other. The html rule is gone
and body is reset instead, which is what makes the page box agree. Headers that
were positioned absolutely at a negative offset -- only possible because of that
margin -- are back in flow.
The items table. Every stock template sets `table { border-collapse: collapse }`,
and CSS says padding does not apply to a table in that mode. dompdf applies it
anyway; Chromium follows the spec and drops it, so the table's `padding: 0 30px`
inset the content on one renderer and not the other. Measured in isolation: with
border-collapse, content starts at x=24.0 on dompdf and x=1.5 on Chromium -- the
full 30px. All of the table's spacing moves to .items-table-wrapper, a plain
block both engines treat the same, using padding so nothing collapses through it
either.
Measured across the seven document templates, that closes the horizontal gap
outright: xMin was 57 on dompdf against 37 on Chromium for five of them, and is
now within 3pt on all seven.
GotenbergStockTemplateCompatibility is removed. Its premise was that dompdf
inflates declared line heights by 1.5x, and that does not hold: rendering the
same text at 12px, 18px, 36px and unitless 1.0/1.5 through both engines gives
line spacing within 0.5pt every time. It also applied its multiplier to the
reports, where line-height 21px pairs with font sizes of 14, 16 and 20px -- so
.report-footer-value at a 1.05 ratio was being blown out to 31.5px, half again
taller than dompdf renders it.
A residual vertical difference remains and is localised, not guessed at: it
accumulates only in the address blocks, which are <br>-joined text emitted by
getFormattedString() with an <h3> in front. Reduced to that construct alone,
Chromium steps 11.25pt per line -- exactly the declared line-height: 15px --
while dompdf steps 14.4pt. That needs deciding on its own terms rather than a
global multiplier, so it is left visible and measurable via pdf:compare.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QmECndmNZwzN65Zz9P87dF
* fix(pdf): restore the stock template design
Two regressions from the page-setup work, both visible on the page.
The coloured header band stopped bleeding to the paper edges. invoice2 and
estimate2 are built around a full-width band, and it now sits in normal flow at
the top of body, so it only reaches the edge when the page margin is nothing.
#728 defaulted margins to 1.2cm on the reasoning that it matched dompdf's
built-in default and so kept existing output unchanged. That was the wrong
reference: the templates are drawn for a zero margin and carry their own 30px
insets, and Gotenberg rendered them at zero before #728, which is the intended
look. Margins now default to nothing. Setting one still works and is honoured by
both drivers, at the cost of the band no longer reaching the edge.
A bare `0` is valid CSS and the only length needing no unit, so CssLength and
PdfPageSetup accept it -- without that the new default would have thrown on
every render.
The totals block was pushed in from the items table's right edge. Fixing the
border-collapse padding problem moved the table's 30px inset onto a wrapper that
contains the whole partial, so it stacked on the insets the hr (25px) and the
totals container (25px) already had. Those two were always honoured by both
renderers; only the table's own padding was not. The inset now lives on a div
wrapping just the table, and the wrapper keeps vertical spacing only, which
restores the original 30px/25px relationship rather than inventing a new one.
Also drops the negative margin-bottom that pulled the addresses up into the band
and hid "Bill to,", and removes a stray `bottom: 0px` on invoice1's
.header-bottom-divider that combined with `top: 90px` to stretch the rule down
the page.
Checked by rendering, not only by measurement: invoice2 and invoice1 on both
drivers now match the intended design. pdf:compare puts the two renderers within
a few points horizontally on all seven documents, xMin 21-22 and xMax 564-575.
The remaining vertical difference is the address-block line spacing documented
earlier and is unchanged by this.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QmECndmNZwzN65Zz9P87dF
* feat(demo): make the demo data actually demo the product
The demo company had no address row, and Invoice::getCompanyAddress() returns
false outright in that case, so every seeded document rendered with an empty
company block -- the name only appeared because the header falls back to it when
there is no logo. Several headline features had no demo data at all: zero tax
types, zero notes, zero recurring invoices, zero custom fields.
DemoSeeder, which the test suite and reset:app both run, now creates Acme Inc
with a postal address, tax ids and a country -- the fields the default address
format actually renders. The address is created through the relation, as
CompaniesController does, so company_id is set and type/user_id/customer_id stay
null: Company::address() is an unscoped hasOne, so anything else carrying that
company_id would be picked up as the company's own.
It also stops trusting currency id 1. Migration 2025_08_18 inserts Algerian
Dinar via firstOrCreate() before any seeder runs, so on a fresh migrate+seed the
demo priced everything in "DA". RealisticDemoSeeder already worked around this
for itself; resolving USD by code fixes it at source for reset:app and the tests
too.
RealisticDemoSeeder gains a logo, two tax types, a notes library, custom fields
and an active recurring invoice. Notes are seeded twice over on purpose: the
library and a document's notes column are unrelated in this application -- there
is no foreign key, and is_default only drives a badge in the settings list, so
nothing pre-fills a document with one.
Tax is applied at document level to most but not all documents, so the demo has
a zero-rated example in it. The arithmetic is the caller's: the service layer
trusts whatever amount it is handed rather than recomputing it, so tax is
rounded once off the subtotal and carried through total, due_amount and every
base_* twin -- miss due_amount and a paid invoice renders as part-paid.
Custom fields are on Customer, the only model_type with a create/edit UI end to
end. The PDF renders only model_type 'Item', which would add a column to the
items table and disturb a layout that was just squared up across both drivers.
The logo is a generated Acme mark rather than one of InvoiceShelf's own, which
would read as InvoiceShelf billing the customer.
Also documents both seeders in AGENTS.md. RealisticDemoSeeder was referenced
nowhere outside database/seeders/, which is a poor place to keep the thing that
makes the app look real.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QmECndmNZwzN65Zz9P87dF
* fix(pdf): tighten the spacing the old absolute header left behind
invoice2 and estimate2 carried three stacked top offsets -- content-wrapper's
60px margin plus address-container's 18px margin and 20px padding -- 98px of
dead white between the coloured band and the first line of content. They existed
because the band used to be position: absolute and out of flow, so everything
below had to be pushed clear of where it visually sat. The band takes its own
height now, so the compensation is just a gap. Collapsed to a single 32px.
Only those two templates had it, which is the tell: they are exactly the two
whose headers were absolutely positioned.
Also pins the margins on the <h3> the address formats emit. Left to the
user-agent default it pushed the company column out of line with the Bill to /
Ship to columns beside it, so the three column headings started at three
different heights. They line up now.
That h3 is also where the two renderers were measured drifting apart, and
pinning it narrows invoice2 from 85.8pt to 72.0pt and estimate2 from 84.4 to
76.8. The templates without a coloured band barely move, which places the rest
of the difference in the per-line spacing of the <br>-joined address lines
rather than in the heading -- consistent with the isolated measurement earlier
(dompdf 14.4pt per line against Chromium's 11.25pt) and still open.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QmECndmNZwzN65Zz9P87dF
RealisticDemoSeeder builds invoices, payments and estimates with
Model::create(), which bypasses both paths that normally set unique_hash
— the factories set it directly, and InvoiceService and friends encode it
from the id after insert. Nothing assigned it here, so every seeded
document had it NULL.
The PDF routes bind on that column, so the frontend built
`/invoices/pdf/` with an empty segment. That 404s, and the only symptom
is "Unable to load document preview" in the UI with nothing written to
the log, which makes it a genuinely slow thing to track down. Anyone who
seeds realistic demo data and opens a document hits it.
Production is unaffected: documents created through the app go through
the service layer, which assigns the hash. Existing seeded databases
need a backfill, encoding each id the same way the services do.
Uses Hashids, as the services do, rather than the factories' str_random,
so demo data matches what the app itself would have produced.
Creates 8 customers with addresses, 12 catalog items, 6 expense categories,
35 invoices (mix of DRAFT/SENT/VIEWED/PAID/PARTIALLY_PAID/UNPAID with
4 overdue), 17 payments covering the PAID and PARTIALLY_PAID invoices,
8 estimates, and 15 expenses — all time-distributed over the last 6
months so the AI chat assistant's get_company_stats, list_recent_payments,
and list_overdue_invoices tools return meaningfully different results
across query periods.
Dev-only: not wired into DatabaseSeeder, not in the test path (the
existing lightweight DemoSeeder stays there unchanged to keep the suite
fast). Runnable only via explicit:
php artisan db:seed --class=RealisticDemoSeeder --force
The seeder is idempotent — re-running wipes the previously seeded
records before regenerating, so you can iterate without manually
truncating the database.
Records are created directly via Model::create() rather than through
the existing InvoiceFactory / InvoiceItemFactory / ItemFactory, which
have bugs that make them unsuitable for realistic seeding:
- Both invoice factories unconditionally cascade-create a
RecurringInvoice on every invoice, generating junk recurring rows.
- ItemFactory sets creator_id to User->company_id, which doesn't
exist as a column on users (creator_id must be a user id).
- All three hardcode User::find(1)->companies()->first()->id,
coupling factories to a specific seeding order.
Those factory fixes are a separate follow-up if desired.
Item prices and all monetary values are stored in cents, matching the
rest of the app (the frontend divides by 100 on display). A $250
consulting hour is `price = 25000`.
The app/Services/ directory had grown into 22 flat files at the root plus 7 uneven subdirectories — finding anything required scrolling through an alphabetical mix of small CRUD services, infrastructure drivers, and install-time utilities. This commit groups services by domain, folds Backup into a new Storage namespace, and moves framework-infrastructure and install-time helpers out of Services and into Support where they belong.
New Services layout: Documents/ (Invoice, Estimate, RecurringInvoice, Payment, Expense, Transaction, DocumentItem, SerialNumber, Currency — matches the 'Documents' navigation group); Company/ (Company, Member, Invitation); Mail/ (MailConfiguration, CompanyMailConfig); Storage/ (FileDisk, plus Backup folded in). ExchangeRateProviderService moves next to its drivers in ExchangeRate/; FontService moves into Pdf/ where it belongs. CustomerService, ItemService, CustomFieldService stay at the Services root as standalone single-file domains.
Moves to Support/: Hashids/ (library wrapper — not business logic); Setup/ (one-shot install-time utilities — stateless helpers); Pdf/ (ImageUtils, PdfTemplateUtils, plus the existing PdfHtmlSanitizer consolidated into the same subdir). These are all framework infrastructure and stateless utilities — the 'service' label never really fit them.
Namespace declarations in 29 moved files updated to match new paths. 62 consumer files (controllers, other services, tests, database factories, seeders, routes, bootstrap/providers.php) have their use statements rewritten via a literal-string replacement script — no regex meant no risk of half-matching. Three Documents services needed an explicit 'use App\Services\Mail\CompanyMailConfigService' added because the same-namespace short reference they relied on no longer resolves after the split.
Verified: composer dump-autoload, 350 tests pass (850 assertions), vendor/bin/pint clean, npm run build succeeds.
Redistribute methods:
- show() -> BootstrapController::currentCompany()
- store(), destroy(), userCompanies() -> Admin\CompaniesController
- transferOwnership() -> CompanySettingsController
Security fix: introduce 'owner' role for company-level admin, distinct
from 'super admin' which is now global platform admin only.
- CompanyService::setupRoles() creates 'owner' role per company
- Company creation assigns scoped 'owner' role instead of global 'super admin'
- Seeders updated to assign 'owner'
Migration renames all existing company-scoped 'super admin' roles to
'owner' and ensures every company owner has the role assigned.
Relocate all 14 files from the catch-all app/Space namespace into proper
locations: data providers to Support/Formatters, installation utilities to
Services/Installation, PDF utils to Services/Pdf, module/update classes to
Services/Module and Services/Update, SiteApi trait to Traits, and helpers
to Support.
Extract ~1,400 lines of business logic from 8 fat models (Invoice, Payment,
Estimate, RecurringInvoice, Company, Customer, Expense, User) into 9 new
service classes with constructor injection. Controllers now depend on
services instead of calling static model methods. Shared item/tax creation
logic consolidated into DocumentItemService.
* docs: add CLAUDE.md for Claude Code guidance
* fix: handle missing settings table in installation middlewares
RedirectIfInstalled crashed with "no such table: settings" when the
database_created marker file existed but the database was empty.
Changed to use isDbCreated() which verifies actual tables, and added
try-catch around Setting queries in both middlewares.
* feat: pre-select database driver from env in installation wizard
The database step now reads DB_CONNECTION from the environment and
pre-selects the matching driver on load, including correct defaults
for hostname and port.
* feat: pre-select mail driver and config from env in installation wizard
The email step now fetches the current mail configuration on load
instead of hardcoding the driver to 'mail'. SMTP fields fall back
to Laravel config values from the environment.
* refactor: remove file-based DB marker in favor of direct DB checks
The database_created marker file was a second source of truth that
could drift out of sync with the actual database. InstallUtils now
checks the database directly via Schema::hasTable which is cached
per-request and handles all error cases gracefully.
* feat(currency): add Algerian Dinar (DZD) support (#395)
* Add Paraguayan Guarany (PYG) currency (#434)
* Adding Paraguayan currency, closes#404
* Adding the currency to the seeder too
* If the data was already seeded, don't add the entry
* Pint
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* Add DZD currency to the currencies seeder
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Co-authored-by: Polat İnceler <inceler.polat@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: mchev <martin.chevignard@gmail.com>
* Convert string references to `::class`
PHP 5.5.9 adds the new static `class` property which provides the fully qualified class name. This is preferred over using strings for class names since the `class` property references are checked by PHP.
* Use Faker methods
Accessing Faker properties was deprecated in Faker 1.14.
* Convert route options to fluent methods
Laravel 8 adopts the tuple syntax for controller actions. Since the old options array is incompatible with this syntax, Shift converted them to use modern, fluent methods.
* Adopt class based routes
* Remove default `app` files
* Shift core files
* Streamline config files
* Set new `ENV` variables
* Default new `bootstrap/app.php`
* Re-register HTTP middleware
* Consolidate service providers
* Re-register service providers
* Re-register routes
* Re-register scheduled commands
* Bump Composer dependencies
* Use `<env>` tags for configuration
`<env>` tags have a lower precedence than system environment variables making it easier to overwrite PHPUnit configuration values in additional environments, such a CI.
Review this blog post for more details on configuration precedence when testing Laravel: https://jasonmccreary.me/articles/laravel-testing-configuration-precedence/
* Adopt anonymous migrations
* Rename `password_resets` table
* Convert `$casts` property to method
* Adopt Laravel type hints
* Mark base controller as `abstract`
* Remove `CreatesApplication` testing trait
* Shift cleanup
* Fix shift first issues
* Updating Rules for laravel 11, sanctum config and pint
* Fix Carbon issue on dashboard
* Temporary fix for tests while migration is issue fixed on laravel side
* Carbon needs numerical values, not strings
* Minimum php version
* Fix domain installation step not fetching the correct company_id
* Fix Role Policy wasn't properly registered
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* Create PHP CS Fixer config and add to CI workflow
* Run php cs fixer on project
* Add newline at end of file
* Update to use PHP CS Fixer v3
* Run v3 config on project
* Run seperate config in CI
