Create New Menu Item in Frontaccounting

Whenever we use a built-in framework, it does not meet our complete requirements. So we need to customize it based on our needs. Here i just give a simple way of creating a new menu item on Frontaccounting.

The Following steps help you to create a new menu item. Goto frontaccounting main directory(Root Directory). Open you frontaccounting.php . It is giving access to every class. So just find the line

include_once($path_to_root . '/applications/customers.php');

and after the line add your menu item. Here i am adding a menu item of HRM.

include_once($path_to_root . '/applications/hrm.php');

and create a object for hrm class. find the following line

$this->add_application(new customers_app());

and add the following line of code under the above line.

$this->add_application(new hrm_app());

Than open your applications directory , and create a new php file namely “hrm.php”. And add your hrm class . Just copy any of the class file and make some changes based on your needs.

<?php

class hrm_app extends application 
{
function hrm_app() 
{
$this->application("hrm", _($this->help_context = "&HRM and Payroll"));

// Here you can add your custom functions and files here. 
}

} ?>

Finally login your frontaccounting, to see your new menu item “HRM”.