Service/Products displayed on homepage

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attempting to show product/service, price, billing cycle, due date, status and a manage button in a table format on the homepage

                    {foreach key=num from=$services item=service}
                            <tr>
                              <td><strong>{$service.group} - {$service.product}</strong>{if $service.domain}<br /><a href="clientarea.php?action=productdetails&id={$service.id}" target="_blank">{$service.domain}</a>{/if}</td>
                              <td>{$service.amount}</td>
                              <td>{$service.billingcycle}</td>
                              <td>{$service.nextduedate}</td>
                          	{if $service.rawstatus eq 'active'}
                          		<td><span class="label label-success {$service.rawstatus}">{$service.statustext}</span></td>
                          	{elseif $service.rawstatus eq 'fraud'}
                          		<td><span class="label label-warning {$service.rawstatus}">{$service.statustext}</span></td>
                          	{elseif $service.rawstatus eq 'terminated'}
                          		<td><span class="label label-danger {$service.rawstatus}">{$service.statustext}</span></td>
                          	{elseif $service.rawstatus eq 'cancelled'}
                          		<td><span class="label label-info {$service.rawstatus}">{$service.statustext}</span></td>
                          	{else}
                          		<td><span class="label label-grey {$service.rawstatus}">{$service.statustext}</span></td>
                          	{/if}
                          	   <td>
                                <a href="clientarea.php?action=productdetails&id={$service.id}"> <i class="icon icon-list-alt"></i> {$LANG.clientareaviewdetails}</a>
                              </td>
                            </tr>
                    {foreachelse}
                            <tr>
                                <td colspan="6" class="textcenter">{$LANG.norecordsfound}</td>
                            </tr>
                    {/foreach}

I use this code on the clientareaproducts.tpl page, and I get data, but nothing on the clientareahome.

So far I have gathered that a hook would need or should be used. but how do I call the required variables? how do I call my custom hook?

 

Any help with this would be appreciated.