Magento – Editing the user dashboard existing pages without changing the core template file

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How to edit a existing page of user dashboard in magento without changing the core template file. I want to add few more information on "My Account page" which is the home page of the user dashboard, if the user is a business user. I want to add one more block below the user information.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Best Answer

The main block holding the 'widgets' in the customer account section is customer_account_board, so if you want to add a block there you would have to reference that one

<customer_account_index>
    <reference name="customer_account_dashboard">
        [...]
    </reference>
</customer_account_index>

Build this would require you to edit frontend/base/default/template/customer/account/dashboard.phtml to add a getChildHtml for your section.

To not be required to edit the file you could add your block under reference name content , under this reference all blocks will be included automatically.

<customer_account_index>
    <reference name="conten">
        <block type="your/block" name="your_block" after="customer_account_dashboard" template="your/block.phtml"/>
    </reference>
</customer_account_index>

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There is nothing wrong with your xml, apart from the fact that the before="" will have no function here.

The issue is that dashboard block is not a core text list type of block. Thus the phtml that deals with the dashboard display will not 'magically' output your block.

You need to add an entry to the dashboard.phtml file to echo out your block.

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('myphtml_page') ?>

and place that in the correct position above the code the outputs the hello block

Naturally you will copy the dashboard.phtml file to your theme to make this edit ;)

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EDIT: Added to answer OP's question about core text list

A core text list is a magento class, which holds a list of child blocks, and will generate a concatenated HTML output of all the child blocks as one HTML block.

a good example of one is 'before_body_end' as define in the layout page.xml file

<block type="core/text_list" name="before_body_end" as="before_body_end" translate="label">
                <label>Page Bottom</label>
            </block>

thus, when you assign a child block to a core/text_list derived block, the child's HTML will be generated for you.

you will find the 'magic' in Mage_Core_Block_Text_List::_toHtml()

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