Adding My Account navigation to module's frontend view

[helln]

Hello,

I've built a module, with a custom product type, what adds a menu item (My Coupon Codes), to the My Account menu, in the frontend. I'm having troubles to render the My Account menu in my module's frontend view, after i click on my added menu item.

/app/code/local/Dan/CouponProduct/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!-- /**
* Module Configuration
*
* @author: helln
*/ -->

<config>
...
        <frontend>
		<events>
			<controller_action_layout_load_before>
				<observers>
					<mage_customer>
						<class>mage_customer/observer</class>
						<method>beforeLoadLayout</method>
					</mage_customer>
				</observers>
			</controller_action_layout_load_before>
         </events>
		<routers>
			<dan_couponproduct>
				<use>standard</use>
				<args>
					<module>Dan_CouponProduct</module>
					<frontName>coupon-codes</frontName>
				</args>
			</dan_couponproduct>
		</routers>
		<layout>
			<updates>
				<dan_couponproduct_layout module="dan_couponproduct">
					<file>dan_couponproduct.xml</file>
				</dan_couponproduct_layout>
			</updates>
		</layout>
	</frontend>
</config>

 /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/dan_couponproduct.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!-- /**
* Layout
*
* @author: helln
*/ -->

<layout>
...
	<customer_account>
		<reference name="customer_account_navigation">
                        ......

			<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="dan_couponproduct">
				<label>My Coupon Codes</label>
				<url>coupon-codes/index/index</url>
				<title>My Coupon Codes</title>
				<prepare>true</prepare>
			</action>
        </reference>
	</customer_account>

<dan_couponproduct_index_index translate="label">
		<label>My Coupon Codes</label>
		<reference name="root">
			<action method="setTemplate">
				<template>page/3columns.phtml</template>
			</action>
			<action method="setHeaderTitle" translate="title" module="dan_couponproduct">
				<title>My Coupon Codes</title>
			</action>
		</reference>
		<reference name="content">
			<block type="dan_couponproduct/list" name="couponproduct.list" template="dan_couponproduct/couponproduct/list.phtml">
				<block type="page/html_pager" name="couponproduct.list.pager" as="couponproduct_list_pager" />
			</block>
		</reference>
                <update handle="customer_account" />
          </dan_couponproduct_index_index>
</layout>

/app/code/local/Dan/CouponProduct/controllers/IndexController.php

<?php /**
* Index Controller
*
* @author: helln
*/

class Dan_CouponProduct_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action {
	public function preDispatch () {
		parent::preDispatch();
		
		if ( !Mage::helper('dan_couponproduct')->isEnabled() || !Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->authenticate( $this, Mage::helper('customer')->getLoginUrl() ) ) {
			$this->setFlag('', self::FLAG_NO_DISPATCH, true);
			$this->_redirect('noRoute');
		}
	}
	
	public function indexAction () {
		$this->loadLayout();
		
		if ( $listBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('couponproduct.list') ) {
			$currentPage = abs( intval( $this->getRequest()->getParam('p') ) );
			if ($currentPage < 1)
				$currentPage = 1;
			$listBlock->setCurrentPage($currentPage);
		}
		
		$navigationBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('customer_account_navigation');
		if ($navigationBlock)
			$navigationBlock->setActive('coupon-codes/index/index');
		
		$this->renderLayout();
	}
} ?>

As you can see, I'm trying to load the mage customer observer at controller_action_layout_load_before, but it looks like i need to do something else to get the My Account menu rendered in the left column of magento's 3 column template.

Help would be very appreciated!

Thanks

Nik

[KuafuSoft]

Adding menu is mostly layout's job.

When you say you want to add menu link to left column of the 3columns layout, do you simply want to create a box with account link in the left column of ever page?

if so, you can easily create a cms statick block with the link in a div box, then add this block to left via cms->widget

[helln]

Thanks for your reply @KuafuSoft!

I'm trying to display the magento customer menu on the left side of the 3 column layout. Since i've added "My Coupon Codes" to it, the menu should be present in my module's frontend view.

[KuafuSoft · Accepted solution]

oh, add

<update handle="customer_account"/>

in your dan_couponproduct_index_index layout handler

[helln]

Thanks again @KuafuSoft,

that did the trick.
Now i have a final question: How can i mark my added menu item as active?

[KuafuSoft · Accepted solution]

generally the link would be marked active automatically once the item full url match with the full path of current controller, but you are using a incomplete path in your layout, so you have to insert this in your controller, before $this->renderLayout();

        $navigationBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('customer_account_navigation');
        if ($navigationBlock) {
            $navigationBlock->setActive('coupon-codes');
        }

 or

change

<url>coupon-codes</url>

 to

<url>coupon-codes/index/index</url>

 where you addLink

[helln]

Finally it is working.

But changing

<url>coupon-codes</url>

to

<url>coupon-codes/index/index</url>

alone, did not work.

Adding

$navigationBlock->setActive('coupon-codes/index/index');

to my IndexController, solved my problem.

i finally have read the article in the Knowledg Base about the "index/index nonesense", how Alan calls it.

(Updating/correcting the original post to supply a functional sample)

Kindest Regards
Nik

[KuafuSoft]

try 

<url>dan_couponproduct</url>

and remove the navigation set active method