Creating new links under tools in admin

[Convergence]

Greetings,

Is there a way to add additional links under tools in admin?

Thanks!

[frank18]

You will need to create a few new files in

admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/your_file.php
admin/includes/extra_datafiles/your_file.php
admin/includes/languages/english/your_file.php
admin/your_file.php

The latter containing the chunk of php code what you want to do with your link OR you could leave this file out
altogether and include your link in admin/includes/languages/english/your_file.php

Just download the mod Backup Mysite and clone it according to your needs.

Make sure you backup everything before doing something like this

[DrByte]

admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/your_file.php

Um, not quite. Try this instead:
/admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/XXXXXX_tools.dhtml

[frank18]

Um, not quite. Try this instead:
/admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/XXXXXX_tools.dhtml

That's the one! Sorry for the !!

[frank18]

No, wait a minute. Checking other add-ons on my admin, shouldn't it be your_file_tools_dhtml.php ?

[DrByte]

yes

[frank18]

Thanks Dr Byte - I got that one right for a change

Have a Great Easter!

[Convergence]

Thanks!

So say this is my code in tools_dhtml.php

$za_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_TOOLS_EXTERNAL_LINK, 'link' => zen_href_link(FILENAME_EXTERNAL_LINK, '', 'NONSSL'));

how would I get that to open in a new window as it is an external link?

Thanks, again!

[DrByte]

Well, if it's an external link, you wouldn't use zen_href_link at all.

What exactly are you linking to? It's not exactly wise to link to external sites from within your admin area ... for several reasons:
a) it exposes the real URL to your admin foldername
b) it opens your admin and the other site to XSS (cross site scripting) or CSRF (cross site request forgery) security risks
c) and isn't really your "admin" per se, so really shouldn't be linked from your admin

[Convergence]

We want to have links to other services we have such as, our domain registration site, live chat, etc.

These are links to sites we control.

We created an .htaccess redirect to minimize security risks.

The link we actually created was this:

$za_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_TOOLS_LINK_NAME, 'link' => zen_href_link((link), '', 'NONSSL'));

that created a link to a non existant url: /link.php

in .htacess we simply redirected /link.php to our destination URL.

Your thoughts?