how to link to template file

[japes]

Hopefully a stupid question, I have very little experience working with WHMCS and joined this project after it's been mostly set up

I need to load a template file for my "about.php" page. The template is "about.tpl".

How are these .php pages set up initially with the encoded php and how can I load my template whenever someone visits the about page?

 

 

 

[NadalKumar]

Take a look at the creating pages guide https://developers.whmcs.com/advanced/creating-pages/

[brian!]

19 hours ago, japes said:

How are these .php pages set up initially with the encoded php and how can I load my template whenever someone visits the about page?

assuming there are no existing sidebars to be added, and you're not checking the users loggedin status, that example on the docs page can be simplified to...

<?php

use WHMCS\ClientArea;

define('CLIENTAREA', true);
require __DIR__ . '/init.php';
$ca = new ClientArea();
$ca->setPageTitle('Your Page Title Goes Here');
$ca->addToBreadCrumb('index.php', Lang::trans('globalsystemname'));
$ca->addToBreadCrumb('about.php', 'Your Custom Page Name');
$ca->initPage();
$ca->setTemplate('about');
$ca->output();

it assumes that the about.tpl template is in your active template folder (e.g Six if you aren't using a custom theme).