Get customer account data in shipment PDF

Question

In the Invoice PDF I can get (logged in) customer account data with the following code:

$customer_email = $order->getCustomerEmail();
$customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer"); 
$customer->setWebsiteId(Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId()); 
$customer->loadByEmail($customer_email);

If I try to use this code in the shipment PDF (Mage/Sales/Model/Order/Pdf/Shipment.pdf), the customer data remains empty.

Given the customer email in $order, how can I get the account data in the shipment PDF?

Answer 1

I think you can use $order->getCustomerId() instead of getCustomerEmail. Then you can just load the customer like this:

$customerId = $order->getCustomerId();
if ($customerId) { //the order was not placed as guest
    Mage::getModel('customer/customer')->load($customerId);
}
else {
    //order was placed as guest.
}

Doing it like this, you won't need to set a website id to the customer model before loading it.

Answer 2

Since the PDF is created from the backend the current Website ID will be 0 (admin). Depending on in what method you are trying to use your code snippet you might want to do something like this:

function getPdf

$customer_email = $order->getCustomerEmail();
$customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer"); 
$customer->setWebsiteId($shipment->getStore()->getWebsite()->getId()); 
$customer->loadByEmail($customer_email);

I'm using the getStore() data from the shipment object. This way it gets the store the order was placed from.