Magento 1.5.1: new customer dashboard block
I am going mental trying to create a new very simple section on my customer dashboard. Something like www.mymagentosite.com/customer/rid (rid includes only static links). However, when I try to access www.mymagentosite.com/customer/rid, I always get a 404 Magento page (no exceptions or system message in the log files)
What am I missing?
Thank you
What I have done so far is:
-create a new Block under /app/code/local/Mage/Customer/Block/Account/Dashboard/Rid.php
class Mage_Customer_Block_Account_Dashboard_Rid extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
public function getCustomer()
{
return Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
}
}
-create a new controller under /app/code/local/Mage/Customer/controllers/RidController.php
class Mage_Customer_RidController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{
protected function _getSession()
{
return Mage::getSingleton('customer/session');
}
public function preDispatch()
{
parent::preDispatch();
if (!Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->authenticate($this)) {
$this->setFlag('', 'no-dispatch', true);
}
}
public function indexAction()
{
if (count($this->_getSession()->getCustomer()->getAddresses())) {
$this->loadLayout();
$this->_initLayoutMessages('customer/session');
$this->_initLayoutMessages('catalog/session');
$block = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('rid');
if ($block) {
$block->setRefererUrl($this->_getRefererUrl());
}
$this->renderLayout();
} else {
$this->getResponse()->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('*/*/new'));
}
}
}
-create a new helper under /app/code/local/Mage/Customer/Helper/Rid.php
class Mage_Customer_Helper_Rid extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{
public function getRenderer($renderer)
{
if(is_string($renderer) && $className = Mage::getConfig()->getBlockClassName($renderer)) {
return new $className();
} else {
return $renderer;
}
}
}
-edit the file /app/design/frontend/default/MYTHEME/layout/customer.xml
<customer_account_index translate="label">
<label>Customer My Account Dashboard</label>
<update handle="customer_account"/>
<!-- EXISTING CODE -->
<reference name="my.account.wrapper">
<!-- EXISTING CODE -->
<block type="customer/account_dashboard_rid" name="rid" as="rid"
template="customer/account/dashboard/rid.phtml"></block>
</block>
</reference>
</customer_account_index>
<customer_rid_index translate="label">
<label>RID</label>
<!-- Mage_Customer -->
<update handle="customer_account"/>
<reference name="my.account.wrapper">
<block type="customer/rid" name="address_book"
template="customer/account/dashboard/rid.phtml"/>
</reference>
</customer_rid_index>
-create /app/design/frontend/default/MYTHEME/template/customer/account/dashboard/rid.phtml
You need to tell Magento to use your controller and not the core:
"An important key to note here is that with controllers, Magento does not autoload them like it does with blocks and models."
http://prattski.com/2010/06/24/magento-overriding-core-files-blocks-models-resources-controllers/
etc/config.xml
<config>
<frontend>
<routers>
<checkout>
<args>
<modules>
<My_Module before="Mage_Checkout">My_Module_Checkout</My_Module>
</modules>
</args>
</checkout>
</routers>
</frontend>
</config>