Client Area buttons and custom template

[stroebs_za]

Hi!

I'm somewhat of a newbie to WHMCS customisation and still figuring out how a few things work in v7.

I can find documentation on how to apply custom buttons (Actions sidebar) in the client area OR a custom template, but not both(?). The pre-built cPanel module seems to be able to do this but I cannot figure out how. My idea is to create a login button just like cPanel does for their Webmail, as well as a custom client area template for my server module.

 

Currently using:

function mymodule_ClientArea($params)
{
   // Determine the requested action and set service call parameters based on
   // the action.
   $requestedAction = isset($_REQUEST['customAction']) ? $_REQUEST['customAction'] : '';
   if ($requestedAction == 'manage') {
       $serviceAction = 'get_usage';
       $templateFile = 'templates/manage.tpl';
   } else {
       $serviceAction = 'get_stats';
       $templateFile = 'templates/overview.tpl';
   }
   try {
       // Call the service's function based on the request action, using the
       // values provided by WHMCS in `$params`.
       $response = array();

       return array(
           'tabOverviewReplacementTemplate' => $templateFile,
           'templateVariables' => array(),
       );
   } catch (Exception $e) {
       // Record the error in WHMCS's module log.
       logModuleCall(
           'provisioningmodule',
           __FUNCTION__,
           $params,
           $e->getMessage(),
           $e->getTraceAsString()
       );
       // In an error condition, display an error page.
       return array(
           'tabOverviewReplacementTemplate' => 'error.tpl',
           'templateVariables' => array(
               'usefulErrorHelper' => $e->getMessage(),
           ),
       );
   }
}

 

[WHMCS Andrew]

The cPanel module uses a template which outputs the custom buttons - check modules/servers/cpanel/templates/

In the clientArea function, we have the following (and only the following)

return array(
	'overrideDisplayTitle' => ucfirst($params['domain']),
	'tabOverviewReplacementTemplate' => 'overview.tpl',
	'tabOverviewModuleOutputTemplate' => 'loginbuttons.tpl',
);

This will load these two templates from the cpanel templates directory.