Create New Menu Tab In The Backoffice - php

Question

I have some issues adding a new tab in the backoffice menu.
I successfully created it with this function (called inside install method of module class):
public function createMenuTab() {
$tab = new Tab();
$tab->module = $this->name;
$tab->class_name = 'AdminQuote';
$tab->id_parent = 0;
$tab->active = 1;
foreach (Language::getLanguages(false) as $l)
$tab->name[$l['id_lang']] = 'Gestione Preventivi';
return (bool)$tab->add();
}
But now I don't know how to show a view.
I put the class AdminQuoteController in /controllers/admin/AdminQuote.php and it just extends ModuleAdminController.
What should I do now to show a view? I didn't find anything in the PS docs!

Answer 1

There is example from smartblog module.
<?php
class AdminImageTypeController extends ModuleAdminController
{
public function __construct()
{
$this->table = 'smart_blog_imagetype';
$this->className = 'BlogImageType';
$this->module = 'smartblog';
$this->lang = false;
$this->context = Context::getContext();
$this->bootstrap = true;
$this->fields_list = array(
'id_smart_blog_imagetype' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Id'),
'width' => 100,
'type' => 'text',
),
'type_name' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Type Name'),
'width' => 350,
'type' => 'text',
),
'width' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Width'),
'width' => 60,
'type' => 'text',
),
'height' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Height'),
'width' => 60,
'type' => 'text',
),
'type' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Type'),
'width' => 220,
'type' => 'text',
),
'active' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Status'),
'width' => 60,
'align' => 'center',
'active' => 'status',
'type' => 'bool',
'orderby' => false
)
);
parent::__construct();
}
public function renderForm()
{
$this->fields_form = array(
'legend' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Blog Category'),
),
'input' => array(
array(
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $this->l('Image Type Name'),
'name' => 'type_name',
'size' => 60,
'required' => true,
'desc' => $this->l('Enter Your Image Type Name Here'),
),
array(
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $this->l('width'),
'name' => 'width',
'size' => 15,
'required' => true,
'desc' => $this->l('Image height in px')
),
array(
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $this->l('Height'),
'name' => 'height',
'size' => 15,
'required' => true,
'desc' => $this->l('Image height in px')
),
array(
'type' => 'select',
'label' => $this->l('Type'),
'name' => 'type',
'required' => true,
'options' => array(
'query' => array(
array(
'id_option' => 'post',
'name' => 'Post'
),
array(
'id_option' => 'Category',
'name' => 'category'
),
array(
'id_option' => 'Author',
'name' => 'author'
)
),
'id' => 'id_option',
'name' => 'name'
)
),
array(
'type' => 'switch',
'label' => $this->l('Status'),
'name' => 'active',
'required' => false,
'is_bool' => true,
'values' => array(
array(
'id' => 'active',
'value' => 1,
'label' => $this->l('Enabled')
),
array(
'id' => 'active',
'value' => 0,
'label' => $this->l('Disabled')
)
)
)
),
'submit' => array(
'title' => $this->l('Save'),
)
);
if (!($BlogImageType = $this->loadObject(true)))
return;
$this->fields_form['submit'] = array(
'title' => $this->l('Save '),
);
return parent::renderForm();
}
public function renderList()
{
$this->addRowAction('edit');
$this->addRowAction('delete');
return parent::renderList();
}
public function initToolbar()
{
parent::initToolbar();
}
}
class BlogImageType extends ObjectModel
{
public $id_smart_blog_imagetype;
public $type_name;
public $width;
public $height;
public $type;
public $active = 1;
public static $definition = array(
'table' => 'smart_blog_imagetype',
'primary' => 'id_smart_blog_imagetype',
'multilang' => false,
'fields' => array(
'width' => array('type' => self::TYPE_INT, 'validate' => 'isunsignedInt', 'required' => true),
'height' => array('type' => self::TYPE_INT, 'validate' => 'isunsignedInt', 'required' => true),
'type_name' => array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'validate' => 'isString', 'required' => true),
'type' => array('type' => self::TYPE_STRING, 'validate' => 'isString', 'required' => true),
'active' => array('type' => self::TYPE_BOOL, 'validate' => 'isBool', 'required' => true),
),
);
.
.
.
}

Answer 2

Finally, I find this way:
I created the class AdminQuoteController in /controllers/admin/AdminQuote.php that extends ModuleAdminController. With this code inside:
class AdminQuoteController extends ModuleAdminController {
public function renderList() {
return $this->context->smarty->fetch(_PS_MODULE_DIR_.'preventivi/views/templates/admin/content.tpl');
}
}
This works even without declare display(), init(), initContent() or __construct() as I read in other previous threads.