Customizing and adding woocommerce template data - php

Question

I am having some trouble customizing the woocommerce templates in my wordpress theme. I would like to add additional data as variables in my templates.
I want to show active orders on the dashboard/my-account page. I want to do this by passing in order data variables to the template to be able to call, like how it is done in the orders.php template.
I know I can override the wc-template-functions.php in my theme and then add the data in the wc_get_templates function for the dashboard or my account. However, I don't want to do this.
What I've tried is creating a hook such as:
functions.php
function wc_fr_add_orders_to_account( $fr_account_orders, $current_page ) {
global $fr_account_orders;
$current_page = empty( $current_page ) ? 1 : absint( $current_page );
$customer_orders = wc_get_orders( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_my_account_my_orders_query',
array(
'customer' => get_current_user_id(),
'page' => $current_page,
'paginate' => true,
'status' => array( 'wc-pending' )
) ) );
$fr_account_orders = array(
'current_page' => absint( $current_page ),
'customer_orders' => $customer_orders,
'has_orders' => 0 < $customer_orders->total
);
return $fr_account_orders;
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_account_content', 'wc_fr_add_orders_to_account' );
/theme-directory/woocommerce/templates/myaccount/dashboard.php (also tried in my-account.php)
do_action( 'woocommerce_account_dashboard', $fr_account_orders);
var_dump($fr_account_orders);
$fr_account_orders comes back null. However if I var_dump the array in the hook function, it comes back with data. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Eaasy there. If you want to return the variable, that's just not the way to do it. You should use the apply_filters like so:
function wc_fr_add_orders_to_account() {
/* your function */
return $fr_account_orders;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_account_dashboard', 'wc_fr_add_orders_to_account' );
and in your template..
$my_var = apply_filters( 'woocommerce_account_dashboard', $fr_account_orders );
var_dump( $my_var );
now if you want to send some variables do it like so:
function wc_fr_add_orders_to_account( $var1, $var2 ) {
/* your function */
return $fr_account_orders;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_account_dashboard', 'wc_fr_add_orders_to_account', 10, 3 );
and in your template again..
$my_var = apply_filters( 'woocommerce_account_dashboard', $fr_account_orders, $var1, $var2 );
var_dump( $my_var );
read more about apply_filters here https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/apply_filters/ one more thing, try not to change templates, but use add_action on the do_action hooks from template for better compatibility. thanks!

Answer 2

I tried several ways and couldn't figure out how to keep the pagination correct. This way lists all of the orders on my dashboard.
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'paged' => $paged,
'meta_key' => '_customer_user',
'meta_value' => get_current_user_id(),
'post_type' => wc_get_order_types(),
'post_status' => array ('wc-pending'),
);
$customer_waiting_orders = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $customer_available_orders->have_posts() ) :
while ( $customer_available_orders->have_posts() ) : $customer_available_orders->the_post();
//code here
wp_reset_postdata();
endwhile;
endif;