Magento how do I programmatically ship orders?

Question

I am looking at some code to add MassAction in Magento and ship and complete multiple orders from sales_order/index

Somehow the orders are not being shipped.

It looks like (a perfectly normal order) is not passing the canship() test. Should it be passsed $order of $orderid?

Here's my code

//Get orderids
$orderIds = $this->getRequest()->getPost('order_ids');

//verify if the array is not empty
if (!empty($orderIds)) {
//loop through orders
foreach ($orderIds as $orderId) {

// Dont know what this does
$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->loadByIncrementId($orderId);

// Is the order shipable?
if($order->canShip())
{
$itemQty =  $order->getItemsCollection()->count();
// This first definition and 2nd look overlapping, our one is obsolete?
$shipment = Mage::getModel('sales/service_order', $order)->prepareShipment($itemQty);
$shipment = new Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Shipment_Api();

// But still, no shipment, why?
$shipmentId = $shipment->create($orderId, array(), 'Shipment created through ShipMailInvoice', true, true);

Answer 1

You need to load by ID, if you get orderID, or load by IncrementOrderId if, you actually get the Order incrementId.

Use this:

$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->load($orderId);

let us know if it worked.

And then :

$shipmentId = $shipment->create($order->getIncrementId(), $itemQty, 'Shipment created through ShipMailInvoice', true, true);

Try that.

Answer 2

$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->load($orderId);

//create shipment
$itemQty =  $order->getItemsCollection()->count();
$shipment = Mage::getModel('sales/service_order', $order)->prepareShipment($itemQty);
$shipment = new Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Shipment_Api();
$shipmentId = $shipment->create( $order->getIncrementId(), array(), 'Shipment created through ShipMailInvoice', true, true);

//add tracking info
$shipment_collection = Mage::getResourceModel('sales/order_shipment_collection');
$shipment_collection->addAttributeToFilter('order_id', $orderId);
foreach($shipment_collection as $sc)
{
$shipment = Mage::getModel('sales/order_shipment');
$shipment->load($sc->getId());
                                if($shipment->getId() != '')
                                { 
                                try
                                {
                                     Mage::getModel('sales/order_shipment_track')
                                     ->setShipment($shipment)
                                     ->setData('title', 'carrier')
                                     ->setData('number', $trackInfo)
                                     ->setData('carrier_code', 'custom')
                                     ->setData('order_id', $shipment->getData('order_id'))
                                     ->save();

                                }catch (Exception $e)
                                {
                                    Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('order id '.$orderId.' no found');
                                }
                                }
                        }
// change order status to complete
                        $order->addStatusToHistory(Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_COMPLETE);
                        $order->setData('state', Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_COMPLETE);
                        $order->save();

Working code for anyone who would like to:

1. Create a shipment.
2. Add shipping tracking information.
3. And, change the shipment status to complete.

A lot thanks to ShaunOReilly.