Product categories menu on other pages

[isixhosting]

Hi WHMCS friends,

 

so I started to customize my WHMCS after a few years again and logically missed the points when the developers switched to using hooks. Now, it's being a nightmare for me (maybe for others as well) to make some little changes to the code. But ok, my current problem is:

 

I wan't the sidebar menu with product categories to be visible on all other pages like:

 

/announcements.php

/knowledgebase.php

/serverstatus.php (if not-logged-in as well)

/contact.php

 

and in all other new created pages I want it add too.

 

Please see the screenshots.

 

Thanks

 

 

[brian!]

so I started to customize my WHMCS after a few years again and logically missed the points when the developers switched to using hooks. Now, it's being a nightmare for me (maybe for others as well) to make some little changes to the code. But ok, my current problem is:

 

I want the sidebar menu with product categories to be visible on all other pages like:

 

/announcements.php

/knowledgebase.php

/serverstatus.php (if not-logged-in as well)

/contact.php

and in all other new created pages I want it add too.

you could do that with an action hook that checks if the Categories sidebar exists on the page - if so, it doesn't do anything; if it's missing, it recreates it.

similarly for the actions sidebar - except you wouldn't need to query the database for that, you'd just recreate the sidebar and it's 4 children (renewals, register, transfer, view cart) directly in the hook.

 

Please see the screenshots.

FWIW - do you really think that's a good idea?

 

take a look at your knowledgebase page - you've got 4 sidebars already there (including the long categories sidebar) - and you want to add 3 more sidebars to the page?

 

don't get me wrong, you can do it - but if i'm at your kb page, do I need to see a list of your product categories, register a domain or even change currency - I wouldn't have thought so... and the same would go for the other pages you list too.

[isixhosting]

you could do that with an action hook that checks if the Categories sidebar exists on the page - if so, it doesn't do anything; if it's missing, it recreates it.

similarly for the actions sidebar - except you wouldn't need to query the database for that, you'd just recreate the sidebar and it's 4 children (renewals, register, transfer, view cart) directly in the hook.

 

 

FWIW - do you really think that's a good idea?

 

take a look at your knowledgebase page - you've got 4 sidebars already there (including the long categories sidebar) - and you want to add 3 more sidebars to the page?

 

don't get me wrong, you can do it - but if i'm at your kb page, do I need to see a list of your product categories, register a domain or even change currency - I wouldn't have thought so... and the same would go for the other pages you list too.

 

Thanks Brian. Yeah, you're right about the KB... But I would like to add it to the other pages. Can you please provide me with the hook source code and where do I have to it in?

 

Many thanks.

[brian!]

for the product groups (categories) sidebar, it's the only one that's going to need a query to the database - create a new .php file in /includes/hooks and add the following...

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;
use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function (MenuItem $secondarySidebar)
{
   if (is_null($secondarySidebar->getChild('Categories'))) {

       $ProductGroups = Capsule::table('tblproductgroups')
                                   ->where('tblproductgroups.hidden', '0')
                                   ->select('order', 'id', 'name')
                                   ->get();

       $secondarySidebar->addChild('Product Groups', array(
                               'label' => Lang::trans('ordercategories'),
                               ));

       foreach ($ProductGroups as $child){        
               $secondarySidebar->getChild('Product Groups')
                               ->addChild($child->name, array(
                               'label' => $child->name,
                               'uri' => 'cart.php?gid='.$child->id,
                               'order' => $child->order,
                               ));
       }
       $secondarySidebar->getChild('Product Groups')
                               ->addChild('Product Addons', array(
                               'label' => Lang::trans('cartproductaddons'),
                               'uri' => 'cart.php?gid=addons',
                               'order' => 1000,
                               ));
   }
});

as I said previously, the actions sidebar can just be created in another hook as a parent, with 4 children - the currency sidebar is a pain to recreate if memory serves, so i'd leave that if I were you.

[isixhosting]

Works perfectly. Thanks Brian!!!