why is this link work in email /whmcs/clientarea.php?action=productdetails&id={$service_ id}

[Anders]

Hi guys,

 

as I am not a coder I wonder if I could get some help.

 

when I add this link /whmcs/clientarea.php?action=productdetails&id={$service_id} in my "Hosting Account Welcome Email" the link is generating the service ID.

 

But if I add the same link header.tpl or other page the link don generate any service id.

 

 

any ideas how I can make it generate the service id?

 

warm regards K

[brian!]

not all pages have access to the same variables - so with email templates, you can only use the merge fields listed in the box at the bottom of the page; with the other site templates pages, you can see what variables can be easily accessed by adding {debug} into your template source code.

 

also, it may be available in the other template pages - but not necessarily be called {$service_id} - it's possible it could be called something else.

[Anders]

Thx biran,

 

any ideas how this can be done then?

[brian!]

it depends in what page you want to do it and how you want to use it - but in general, there are two ways to do this...

 

you either see if the variable is available on the given template page - for example, in clientareaproductdetails.tpl you can access the variable {$id} which appears to be the same as your {$service_id}... although in clientareaproducts.tpl, it's accessed by {$service.id}

 

or alternatively, you query the database and pull the info from there.