magento sales_order_place_after observer

Question

I\'m trying to write an observer that will export order data when an order is placed. I haven\'t written any modules before. Basing my implementation on this article: http://w

Answer 1

Holy crap. I was stupid. I tested it out with a command line script, like I do with a lot of things, but that particular file was only writeable by the command line interpreter, not the Apache interpreter. I should have left the office earlier last night.

Well for the record, this is how you trigger an action on order placement. I'll leave it up for posterity.