Creating pages --> loads as blank?

[Diesel]

Hi,

 

I am busy evaluating WHMCS and I really like it. Before I buy a license I wanted to see how difficult it will be for me to create custom pages, so I am using the instructions found here.

 

I am trying to create a page named about.php. I have done it exactly as per the above documentation and created a page called about.tpl and in that I simply typed in "Hello World!". All I get is a blank page when loading the php file in the browser.

 

I've not worked with tpl files before so I could be getting this all wrong, please be gentle (can't find an answer here using search). The only thing I can think of that might be causing this is because I am still using the evaluation license?

 

It's not a deal-breaker for me if I can't get it right. I could emulate the layout of the template using plain HTML/CSS, but I figured I'd give this a go first. Any help would be much appreciated.

[jaygreentree]

have you uploaded the about.tpl to /templates/{$template}/ where {$template} is the name of the template?

[Diesel]

Yup, several times!

[jaygreentree]

is the about.php in your whmcs directory? also do you have php errors off? if so turn them on and see if any errors show.

[BAJI26]

Make sure you have

 

$templatefile = "[color=red]about[/color]";

 

in the php.

[Diesel]

Here's the code for the about.php file (which is in the right place):

 

<?php

define("CLIENTAREA",true);

require("/home/myuser/public_html/accounts/billing/dbconnect.php");
require("/home/myuser/public_html/accounts/billing/includes/functions.php");
require("/home/myuser/public_html/accounts/billing/clientareafunctions.php");

$pagetitle = $_LANG['clientareatitle'];
$pageicon = "images/support/clientarea.gif";
$breadcrumbnav = '<a href="http://mydomain.net/accounts/billing/about.php">'.$_LANG['globalsystemname'].'</a>';
$breadcrumbnav .= ' > <a href="http://mydomain.net/accounts/billing/about.php">About</a>'; 

initialiseClientArea($pagetitle,$pageicon,$breadcrumbnav);

if ($_SESSION['uid']) {
 # User is Logged In - put any code you like here
} 

# To assign variables in Smarty use the following syntax.
# This can then be used as {$variablename} in the template

$smartyvalues["variablename"] = $value; 

# Define the template filename to be used without the .tpl extension

$templatefile = "about"; 

outputClientArea($templatefile);

?>

 

The about.tpl file I originally just had "Hello World" in the code. Got a blank. I then copied the entire code from the homepage.tpl to my new page to see if it would work but still just get the blank page.

 

Before I put the absolute path in the php file I was getting PHP errors, but now I only get the blank page.

[BAJI26]

<?php
define("CLIENTAREA",true);
require("dbconnect.php");
require("includes/functions.php");
if ($CONFIG['Version'] >= "3.8.1") {require("includes/clientareafunctions.php");}

$pagetitle = "About Us";

$pageicon = "images/supporttickets_big.gif";

$breadcrumbnav = '<a href="index.php">'.$_LANG['globalsystemname'].'</a> > <a href="index.html">About Us</a>';

if ($CONFIG['Version'] >= "3.8.1") {initialiseClientArea($pagetitle,$pageicon,$breadcrumbnav);} else {require("init.php");}


# Define the template filename to be used without the .tpl extension

$templatefile = "about"; 

if ($CONFIG['Version'] >= "3.8.1") {outputClientArea($templatefile);} else {require("display.php");}

?>

[Diesel]

Aha!

 

Thank you! That works perfectly. I guess it must have been the changing of index.html to about.php that was causing the screw up.