Set title of page using an action hook

[LeonardChallis]

There are a few parts to this, so I'll try explain the best I can.

 

We have a web site that has multiple custom pages - our main content is shown on these pages. Instead of creating lots of PHP files, I have made page.php and load custom content depending on the URL. This is handled through a simple .htaccess rewrite rule. page.php has the following content:

 

<?php

define("CLIENTAREA",true);
require("init.php");

$ca = new WHMCS_ClientArea();
$ca->initPage();

...

$slugs = array('domains', 'web-design', 'web-hosting');
$slug = $_GET['slug'];
if (in_array($slug, $slugs)) {
   $slug = '404';
}

$ca->setTemplate('pages/' . $_GET['slug']);
$ca->output();

?>

 

In header.tpl I want to show a menu, but to do so there needs to be some code that figures out the links, active pages, page titles, breadcrumb, etc. But if I put this code in page.php then it won't show up on normal client pages. I decided to put it in a hook, that would setup the data as template variables to be used in header.tpl. I wrote a function which returns the correct data and made the hook like so:

 

add_hook('ClientAreaPage', 1, 'hook_headersetup');

 

This works fine for both pages I created and normal client pages in WHMCS. However, on my custom pages I also want to set the title, breadcrumb, etc. In page.php I can use code like this:

$ca->setPageTitle()

and [php$ca->addToBreadCrumb()[/php], however the variables that are setup in the ClientAreaPage hook aren't available here.

 

What should I do in this case?

 

Many thanks.

[sentq]

you need to use the custom page code instead of Action Hook, you can pass the $slug value to header.tpl from same page..

 

$ca->assign("slug", $slug);
$ca->setTemplate('pages/' . $slug); 
$ca->output(); 

 

in header.tpl you can use it like follow:

{if $slug=='domains'}
// display domains specific content
{elseif $slug=='web-design'}
// display web-design specific content
{else}
{/if}

[LeonardChallis]

But then if it's not in a hook, the non-custom client pages won't have the menu and other variables available to them the same as custom pages. That's why I put it into a hook - so that they'd be available everywhere.

[sentq]

to set title using Action Hook it will be like this:

 

<?php

function hook_setpagetitle($vars){

$pagetitle = "Set Page Title Here";

// also you can set title per page URL
if ($vars['filename']=='index'){
   $pagetitle = "Home Page";
}
elseif ($vars['filename']=='domains'){
   $pagetitle = "Domains Custom Title";
}

return array("pagetitle" => $pagetitle);
}
add_hook("ClientAreaPage", 1, "hook_setpagetitle");

?>

 

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as far as i know you will be unable to edit or control breadcrumbs from Action Hook, but you can use tricks inside template file to modify it a little