Magento 2.1.2 trying to get a link to show up on My Account page

[zuzikaiser]

I followed https://webkul.com/blog/account-navigation-link-magento2/ and yet I can't get my  link to a custom page in My Account (I'd like it underneath Wishlist)  to show up. I've cleared every cache, any idea as to why it might not show up?

[Sunil Patel]

Are you adding into theme or module?

If in module make sure you have installed that module.

If you are adding into theme make sure theme type is not virtual.

[zuzikaiser]

Adding it in module. The module is installed. It still doesn't show up.

[Rakesh Jesadiya]

@zuzikaiser Please show your code file of a module.

[zuzikaiser]

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/etc/module.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
    <module name="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]" setup_version="0.0.1" active="true"/>
</config>

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/registration.php

<?php
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
    \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
    '[Vendor]_[ModuleName]',
    __DIR__
);

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/etc/frontend/routes.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd">
    <router id="standard">
        <route id="[modulename]" frontName="[modulename]">
            <module name="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]"/>
        </route>
    </router>
</config>

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/Controller/Index/Index.php

<?php

namespace [Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Controller\Index;

use Magento\Framework\Controller\ResultFactory;
use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;

class Index extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action
{

    protected $_resultPageFactory;

    public function __construct(Context $context, \Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory $resultPageFactory)
    {
        $this->_resultPageFactory = $resultPageFactory;
        parent::__construct($context);
    }

    public function execute()
    {

        $resultPage = $this->_resultPageFactory->create();

        return $resultPage;

   }
}

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/layout/[modulename]_index_index.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd" layout="2columns-left">
    <update handle="customer_account"/>
      <referenceBlock name="page.main.title">
        <action method="setPageTitle">
            <argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">[My Title]</argument>
        </action>
      </referenceBlock>
         <referenceContainer name="page.messages">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Messages" name="messages" as="messages"/>
        </referenceContainer>
        <referenceContainer name="content">
            <block class="[Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Block\MyBlock" name="[modulename]_[modulename]_index.view" template="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]::index.phtml"/>
        </referenceContainer>
</page>

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/Block/MyBlock.php

<?php
namespace [Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Block;

class MyBlock extends \Magen
    public $_storeManto\Framework\View\Element\Template
{ager;
    /**
     * Construct
     *
     * @param \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context
     * @param array $data
     */
    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Backend\Block\Template\Context $context, 
        \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $storeManager
    )
    {
        $this->_storeManager=$storeManager;
        parent::__construct($context);
    }

    public function _prepareLayout()
    {
        $this->pageConfig->getTitle()->set(__('My Block'));

        return parent::_prepareLayout();
    }
}

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/templates/index.phtml

Hello World

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/layout/customer_account.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="customer_account_my_link">
                <arguments>
                    <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">[modulename]/index/index</argument>
                    <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">My Link</argument>
                </arguments>
            </block>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>

[Rakesh Jesadiya]

@zuzikaiser First of all, Your block file extends structure is missing. may be you have to miss extends class in Block php of above code.

class MyBlock extends \Magen
    public $_storeManto\Framework\View\Element\Template
{ager;
    

You need to define proper extends class for Block file.

Second Point,

In your customer_account.xml file,

Just pass path as your frontname in your case, [modulename]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="customer-account-navigation-my-link">
                <arguments>
                    <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">[modulename]</argument>
                    <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">My Link</argument>
                </arguments>
            </block>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>

Third Point,

In your, 

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/layout/[modulename]_index_index.xml file You  missed Body tag.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd" layout="2columns-left">
	<update handle="customer_account"/>
   <body>
      <referenceBlock name="page.main.title">
        <action method="setPageTitle">
            <argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">[My Title]</argument>
        </action>
      </referenceBlock>
         <referenceContainer name="page.messages">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Messages" name="messages" as="messages"/>
        </referenceContainer>
        <referenceContainer name="content">
            <block class="[Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Block\MyBlock" name="[modulename]_[modulename]_index.view" template="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]::index.phtml"/>
        </referenceContainer>
  </body>
</page>

Remove var folder and clear cache.

Click Accept As Solution, Answer is useful. Consider Kudos if helpful.

[zuzikaiser]

Thank you for answering. 

The Block class got messed up in copying. It's actually:

class MyBlock extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template
{
    public $_storeManager;

For the customer_account.xml path I have:

 <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">[modulename]/index/index</argument>

Is that correct?

I added the body tag back in, I had it before and had taken it out.

I did: 

 rm -r var/generation/*

 rm -r var/di/*

 rm -r var/cache/*

 rm -r var/page_cache/*

 rm -r var/view_preprocessed/*

and

bin/magento cache:flush

Is that what you meant? Sorry, I'm a total beginner with magento.

Then I refreshed, the link still doesn't show.

[Rakesh Jesadiya]

@zuzikaiser Can you show your module files repeat? So if any hint is possible then i will look up it.

[zuzikaiser]

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/etc/module.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
    <module name="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]" setup_version="0.0.1" active="true"/>
</config>

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/registration.php

<?php
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
    \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
    '[Vendor]_[ModuleName]',
    __DIR__
);

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/etc/frontend/routes.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd">
    <router id="standard">
        <route id="[modulename]" frontName="[modulename]">
            <module name="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]"/>
        </route>
    </router>
</config>

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/Controller/Index/Index.php

<?php

namespace [Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Controller\Index;

use Magento\Framework\Controller\ResultFactory;
use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;

class Index extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action
{

    protected $_resultPageFactory;

    public function __construct(Context $context, \Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory $resultPageFactory)
    {
        $this->_resultPageFactory = $resultPageFactory;
        parent::__construct($context);
    }

    public function execute()
    {

        $resultPage = $this->_resultPageFactory->create();

        return $resultPage;

   }
}

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/layout/[modulename]_index_index.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd" layout="2columns-left">
    <update handle="customer_account"/>
	 <body>
      <referenceBlock name="page.main.title">
        <action method="setPageTitle">
            <argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">[My Title]</argument>
        </action>
      </referenceBlock>
         <referenceContainer name="page.messages">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Messages" name="messages" as="messages"/>
        </referenceContainer>
        <referenceContainer name="content">
            <block class="[Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Block\MyBlock" name="[modulename]_index_index.view" template="[Vendor]_[ModuleName]::index.phtml"/>
        </referenceContainer>
	</body>
</page>

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/Block/MyBlock.php

<?php
namespace [Vendor]\[ModuleName]\Block;

class MyBlock extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template
{
    public $_storeManager;
    /**
     * Construct
     *
     * @param \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context
     * @param array $data
     */
    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Backend\Block\Template\Context $context, 
        \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $storeManager
    )
    {
        $this->_storeManager=$storeManager;
        parent::__construct($context);
    }

    public function _prepareLayout()
    {
        $this->pageConfig->getTitle()->set(__('My Block'));

        return parent::_prepareLayout();
    }
}

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/templates/index.phtml

Hello World

app/code/[Vendor]/[ModuleName]/view/frontend/layout/customer_account.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="customer_account_my_link">
                <arguments>
                    <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">[modulename]/index/index</argument>
                    <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">My Link</argument>
                </arguments>
            </block>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>

[Rakesh Jesadiya]

@zuzikaiser You have to just keep below code in your customer_account.xml file,

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="customer_account_my_link" after="customer-account-navigation-wish-list-link">
                <arguments>
                    <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">[modulename]</argument>
                    <argument name="label" xsi:type="string">My Link</argument>
                </arguments>
            </block>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>

Remove index/index from path in above code.

Run command, 

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

I have just try your module in my system and its working.

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