How to create buttons or tabs inside all pages using action buttons $actionButton

Action buttosn are very elegant and are displayed next to the section title like tabs. These links can have a icon at the end using font awesome.

To create these action buttons, simply create an array with the following name: $actionButton, although there are 3 other default variables than can be used.

By default there are 3 predefined action buttons that can be added to Articles, separated with collons, add the name of the page and the option type: 

$imageGallery = 'ARTICLE IMAGES:VIMPLD';
$videoGallery = 'ARTICLE VIDEOS:FZVTPLD';

Ther is also the preview URL that opens the webpage in a separate tag. separated with colons add the file name,langauge,ID column and title column. the last 2 are optional.

$previewURL = 'article:en:BLOGID:title_en'; 

or

$previewURL = 'services:en'; 

If we need to add more or other action buttons, we use then the  $actionButton array variable, where you can add the following array (Recommended):

$actionButton[0] = array(
 link => getPath('BLOGS','BLOG','ADD ARTICLE'),
 text => 'ADD NEW ARTICLE',
 icon => '<i class="fas fa-layer-plus"></i>'  //optional
)

or use the inline quick format where the value of each button is the url, Button text and icon (font -awesome) all separated with colons ":" (this format doesn't have target option).

$elmid = 'add_article';
$actionButton[0] = getPath('BLOGS','BLOG','ADD ARTICLE').':ADD NEW ARTICLE:<i class="fas fa-layer-plus"></i>:$elmid';

Other options can be added scuh as elm ID (an id for each  action button) and target (full HTML attribute and value)

 id => 'edit_article',  // optional
 target => 'target="_blank"' //optional

If an ID is not provided, it will automatically assign and id as AB_$i where $i is the element nth value:

id="ab_0"
id="ab_1"
​//and so on

For Edit pages or pages not in the menu you need to create the proper link with optionTypes ajnd next ID (array format, recommended):

$optionType = 'VFEDLPSIUW';
$nextid = $db_actions->result(0,'AID');

$actionButton[1] = array(
 link => getPath('BLOGS','BLOG','EDIT ARTICLE',$optionType,$nextid),
 text => 'BACK TO EDIT ARTICLE',
 icon => '<i class="fas fa-layer-plus"></i>',  //optional
 id => 'edit_article',  // optional
 target => 'target="_blank"' //optional
)

Inline (quick format)

$actionButton[1] = getPath('BLOGS','BLOG','EDIT ARTICLE',$optionType,$nextid).":BACK TO EDIT ARTICLE:<i class="fas fa-layer-plus"></i>:".$elmid;

FYI, more parameters can be added to the link as a query string ?var=value

link => getPath('BLOGS','BLOG','ADD ARTICLE').'?'.$qstring.';