How to setup a profil settingspage with plugin

Verdemis

Hey vanilla community,

at the moment i'm struggling to get into the plugin development. i have a simple plugin in development which i can activate in the dashboard and i want to place a settings page for this plugin in the user profil. I added a new link in the sidemenu but now i have big problems with the settings page which i want to load when i follow the new added link.

I tryed it by using the ProfileController Create function, but i only getting a white page. Is there a tutorial or something else where i can learn how to setup this new page? I allready tryed to get this information from an other plugin, but it doesn't work

Best,
Verdemis

R_J

@Verdemis said:
I tryed it by using the ProfileController Create function

You're on the right track! I've struggled with that some time ago, too. This is the working solution I've ended with: https://github.com/R-J/ProfileVisitors/blob/master/class.profilevisitors.plugin.php

Instead of using

   public function ProfileController_Visitors_Create($Sender) {
      // calls function Controller_Index
      $this->Dispatch($Sender);
   }

   public function Controller_Index($Sender) {

you can directly use public function ProfileController_YourSlug_Create($Sender) {

But if you already use it that way and you get a completely blank page, it is more probable that you have a syntax error in your code...

R_J

Sometimes when I've got no IDE at hand (I could recommend NetBeans) I use this web site for quick syntax checks: http://phpcodechecker.com/

R_J

... and if you do not need a dedicated setting screen, you can also hook into the standard user settings:

public function ProfileController_EditMyAccountAfter_Handler($Sender) {
   echo '<li>';
   echo $Sender->Form->Label('One small setting', 'YourFirstSetting');
   echo $Sender->Form->TextBox('YourFirstSetting', array('class' => 'InputBox SmallInput'));
   echo '</li>';
   echo '<li>';
   echo $Sender->Form->Label('Another one', 'YourSecondSetting');
   echo $Sender->Form->TextBox('YourSecondSetting', array('class' => 'InputBox SmallInput'));
   echo '</li>';
}

If your added information is in the database as additional columns in user table, that's all you've got to do!

Verdemis

Thank you R_J, i will check this when i'm at home.