Hooks & Sidebar Customisation

[harry1]

Hi guys,

Two question's here. I'm trying to display Client Credit on the Client Area Homepage:

 

    if (!is_null($primarySidebar->getChild('Client Details'))) {
        $primarySidebar->getChild('Client Details')
            ->addChild('Current Credit')
                ->setLabel('Credit: $' .$currentCredit)
                ->setOrder(100);
    }

 

This works fine, however. I'd ideally like to do this:

->setLabel('<font color="green">Credit: $' .$currentCredit)

And also style the $currentCredit variable. Any suggestions as to how to do this?

Also, I'm trying to use ->setIcon('') however the icon is being displayed at the end of the text (on the right) instead of at the start (on the left).

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

 

Cheers

Harry

[brian!]

Hi Harry,

7 hours ago, harry1 said:

Two question's here. I'm trying to display Client Credit on the Client Area Homepage:

there's no point in reinventing the wheel, there's already a sidebar hook that does that...

numerous variations and additions to that in the thread...

7 hours ago, harry1 said:

This works fine, however. I'd ideally like to do this:

->setLabel('<font color="green">Credit: $' .$currentCredit) 

And also style the $currentCredit variable. Any suggestions as to how to do this? 

i'd suggest using sentq's hook for this as it could be modified for your styling needs...

8 hours ago, harry1 said:

Also, I'm trying to use ->setIcon('') however the icon is being displayed at the end of the text (on the right) instead of at the start (on the left).

that's expected behaviour - in v7, icons would be on the right; in v6, they used to be on the left... those positions are defined in the template...

the usual way to get around it would be to use bodyhtml rather than a label... if you do that, you can put the FA code before the output...

[harry1]

Thank you Brian. Appreciate the help mate.