Add Magento Link My Account

Question

I would like to create a link on the "My Account" page, which will only appear under certain conditions.

Now I have the link mapping all the time by adding the following entry to my layout xml file:

<customer_account>
    <reference name="customer_account_navigation">
        <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="nie"><name>nie</name><path>nie</path><label>NIE Admin</label></action>
    </reference>
</customer_account>

I guess there is a way to encode this so that it only appears under certain circumstances.

Answer 1

Links to the cart and statement already do something similar, so you can copy their method.

• Create a block. It will not be displayed directly, so it can come from drilling Mage_Core_Block_Abstract.

• Give him a method in which conditional logic will execute.

  public function addNieLink()
  {
      if (($parentBlock = $this->getParentBlock()) && (CONDITION-GOES-HERE)) {
          $parentBlock->addLink($this->_('NIE Admin'), 'nie', $this->_('NIE Admin'), true, array(), 50, null, 'class="top-link-cart"');
          // see Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links::addLink()
      }
  }
  
  protected function _prepareLayout()
  {
      // Add the special link automatically
      $this->addNieLink();
      return parent::_prepareLayout();
  }
  

  Put your check in place CONDITION-GOES-HERE.

• .

  <customer_account>
      <reference name="customer_account_navigation">
          <block type="yourmodule/link" name="yourmodule.link" />
      </reference>
  </customer_account>
  

  ( , )

getParentBlock(), , .