Add a link to Your_Account

Have you ever wondered how to add a link to your account so members that log-in can have access?. If you do then this tutorial is for you. Please backup as usual before editing any files!.

Steps :
Open the navbar.php file in the modules/Your_Account folder. The next part depends solely on where you want the link to appear. As you know there are My info, Themes, Messages and so on in the page. Lets say you want your new link before the "Themes" link then you would look for the following:

if ($thmcount > 1) { $menuimg = menuimg("themes.gif"); echo "<td width=\"10%\"><font class=\"content\">" ."<center><a href=\"modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=chgtheme\"><img src=\"$menuimg\" border=\"0\" alt=\""._SELECTTHETHEME."\" title=\""._SELECTTHETHEME."\"></a><br>" ."<a href=\"modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=chgtheme\">"._SELECTTHETHEME."</a>" ."</center></form></font></td>"; }

Before that part is where you would want to add your codes for the link. You need an image to display so just create a small image the same size as your other links. Place that image in modules/Your_Account/images folder. Next we add the codes.

Just before the code for your Themes link add the following:

$menuimg = menuimg("LINK IMAGE.gif"); echo "<td width=\"10%\"><font class=\"content\">" ."<center><a href=\"YOUR NEW LINK HERE \"><img src=\"$menuimg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"".NAME OF YOUR LINK."\" title=\"".TITLE FOR YOUR LINK."\"></a><br>" ."<a href=\"YOUR LINK HERE \">".NAME OF YOUR LINK."</a>" ."</center></form></font></td>";

As you can see everything in bold needs to be changed. If you have more than one language on your site then you need to define your link names and titles. You can do that by using " ._LINKNAME." and "._LINKTITLE." then define those in the lang-yourlanguage.php file inside the Your_Accounts module. Here is how to define it. Open lang-yourlanguage.php and add the following

define("_LINKNAME","My link name");

Do the same for the link title. Save and upload both files to Your_Account module.

That's all!. Visit the forums for more help.