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 the value of each button is the url, Button text and icon (font -awesome) all separated with colons ":"

 

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

 

For Edit pages or pages not in the menu:

 

$optionType = 'VFEDLPSIUW';

$elmid = 'edit_article';

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

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

 

or (Not recommended)

 

$elmid = 'add_article';
$actionButton[1] = '/kas/op_PAGE~NAME-'.$KMID.'-'.$KSMID.'-'.$KSMOID.'_'.$idvalue.'_VDNWL.kas':ADD NEW ARTICLE:<i class="fas fa-layer-plus"></i>:'.$elmid;

 

The last paramater ":$elmid" is optional and it let's use choose a specifc id="value" for the button in case you need to interact with JavaScript, id you do not add al element id, it will automatically assign and id as AB_$i where $i is the element nth value:

id="ab_0"
id="ab_1"
​//and so on

You can also add ?var=value but it is optional, it is if you need to send a query string.

 

$elmid = 'add_article';
$qstring = 'var=value&var2=val2';
$actionButton[0] = getPath('BLOGS','BLOG','ADD ARTICLE').'?'.$qstring.':ADD NEW ARTICLE:<i class="fas fa-layer-plus"></i>:$elmid';