Moving 'View Cart' & 'Choose language' to a secondarySidebar, possible?

[-M-]

Hi guys,

 

Can someone tell me how I can correctly move the following two items:

 

- View Cart

- Choose language (with language selection options)

 

to a 'secondarySidebar' in the Client Area?

 

The reason I want to move these two items is that I want to get the design of WHMCS almost exactly the same as the main website (which is quite a pain to achieve by the way).

 

I tried a few things myself, but no luck.

 

Thank you in advance for helping out. Highly appreciated as always.

 

//edit

 

I am also fooling a bit around myself at the moment. I also noticed I don't know how to display {$LANG.viewcart} in a hook, for example in the following part:

 

   $secondarySidebar->addChild('example', array(
       'label' => 'labelname',
       'uri' => '#',
       'icon' => 'fa-example',
   ));

 

Where I want to replace 'labelname' with {$LANG.viewcart}. I tried using {$LANG.viewcart} there, but that didn't work. It will output it like it shows...?

 

On a sidenote; I wish there were a few more random examples in the docs (especially for people like me with zero coding skills).

Edited September 21, 2015 by MvdL1979
Added (another) noobish question. :S

[brian!]

Can someone tell me how I can correctly move the following two items:

 

- View Cart

- Choose language (with language selection options)

 

to a 'secondarySidebar' in the Client Area?

i'll deal with the easier one first - view cart!

 

to remove the existing 'View Cart' link, you'll need to edit header.tpl and remove (or remark out) the 3-line <div> block ~ line 75 for 'Shopping Cart'.... btw, same would go for language @ line 23

 

then to add a view cart link to a secondary navbar, create a file in the includes/hooks folder, call it secondaryviewcart.php (or anything you like!) and add the following into it.

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondaryNavbar', 1, function (MenuItem $secondaryNavbar)
{
   $secondaryNavbar->addChild('View Cart', array(
               'label' => Lang::trans('viewcart'),
               'uri' => 'cart.php?a=view',
               'order' => '0',
           ));
});

Where I want to replace 'labelname' with {$LANG.viewcart}. I tried using {$LANG.viewcart} there, but that didn't work. It will output it like it shows...?

there are a few ways the above could be achieved, but the method used in the hook is the 'official' way I believe for v6!

 

On a sidenote; I wish there were a few more random examples in the docs (especially for people like me with zero coding skills).

count yourself lucky that you weren't here a few months ago straight after the v6 release - we still had the same poor documentation with many basic features left unexplained... and it's only by trial & error that a few of us have filled (some of) the gaps!

 

going back to the language part, I doubt you could move the black language overlay to a navbar menu link, so the alternative would be to add 24 children to a new navbar menu item - but that might be too large for most users!

 

v5 has a dropdown menu to select language - depending on your site design, that may be a better option that adding another item to the navbar.

 

edit - just noticed you said sidebar and not navbar, but the principles are the same - just change Navbar to Sidebar in the code!

 

additionally, if you're using it as a sidebar, you may also need to tweak the code to only show it on certain appropriate pages and not all of them.

Edited September 21, 2015 by brian!

[-M-]

Thanks once again Brian.

 

You really make everything sound so simple and easy.

I will give it a go as you described.

 

And in regards to the language, I stripped most languages. So there are only 3 languages left. I don't mind having them in a panel.

But I think I might have a solution of that language thing. I just copy the URL to change the language (doing this for each of the 3 languages). Don't know if this will work. But I guess it should.

 

In regards to the documentation; yeah, I remember looking at WHMCS several years ago, but since documents were lacking, I decided to go a different route back then.

 

Anyways, thanks for the answers. Wish I could say this was the last time I needed help, but that would be lying.

[brian!]

You really make everything sound so simple and easy.

i'm like a swan - serene on top, but paddling furiously underneath!

 

And in regards to the language, I stripped most languages. So there are only 3 languages left. I don't mind having them in a panel.

But I think I might have a solution of that language thing. I just copy the URL to change the language (doing this for each of the 3 languages). Don't know if this will work. But I guess it should.

I was hoping you weren't wanting to add 24 languages and had stripped some of them - that simplifies things tremendously and allows you to effectively hard-code the links in a hook.

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function (MenuItem $secondarySidebar)
{
   $secondarySidebar->addChild('Languages', array(
               'label' => Lang::trans('chooselanguage'),
               'order' => '0',
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('Languages')
           ->addChild('English', array(
               'label' => 'English',
               'uri' => '?language=english', 
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('Languages')
           ->addChild('French', array(
               'label' => 'French',
               'uri' => '?language=french',                
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('Languages')
           ->addChild('Spanish', array(
               'label' => 'Spanish',
               'uri' => '?language=spanish',                
           ));
});

[-M-]

i'm like a swan - serene on top, but paddling furiously underneath!

 

 

I was hoping you weren't wanting to add 24 languages and had stripped some of them - that simplifies things tremendously and allows you to effectively hard-code the links in a hook.

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function (MenuItem $secondarySidebar)
{
   $secondarySidebar->addChild('Languages', array(
               'label' => Lang::trans('chooselanguage'),
               'order' => '0',
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('Languages')
           ->addChild('English', array(
               'label' => 'English',
               'uri' => '?language=english', 
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('Languages')
           ->addChild('French', array(
               'label' => 'French',
               'uri' => '?language=french',                
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('Languages')
           ->addChild('Spanish', array(
               'label' => 'Spanish',
               'uri' => '?language=spanish',                
           ));
});

 

Yeah, 20+ languages would be insane, unless you use a dropdown or similar. But I only want to use 3 languages anyways.

Anyways, worked perfectly. Thank you Brian!

 

//edit #1

 

I edited the cart hook, however the text is showing up, but the cart is not?

 

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function (MenuItem $secondarySidebar) {
   $secondarySidebar->addChild('View Cart', array(
               'label' => Lang::trans('viewcart'),
               'uri' => 'cart.php?a=view',
               'order' => '0',
           ));
});

 

Only the cart's name (in selected language shows up), but no link or anything else, just white-space?

 

Did I do something wrong?

 

//edit #2

 

Well I managed to get it working. Thanks to the code you provided with change language settings:

 

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function (MenuItem $secondarySidebar) {
   $secondarySidebar->addChild('ViewCart', array(
               'label' => Lang::trans('viewcart'),
               'order' => '0',
           ));
           $secondarySidebar->getChild('ViewCart')
           ->addChild('ViewCart', array(
               'label' => Lang::trans('viewcart'),
               'uri' => 'cart.php?a=view',             
           ));
});

 

Is this the correct way?

 

The only minor issue I am having now, is that it showing the sidebar also on the main page (where you do a domainname lookup and stuff, but I guess I will have to hide it there.

 

Thank you.

Edited September 22, 2015 by MvdL1979
fixed it. :)