Im trying to load phtml file via xml for added refund tab in magento?

Question

Im trying to load an file sales/guest/form.phtml for added tab left navigation tab on customer my account, via customer.xml but didn't kindly help me. Refund

Answer 1

I have done somewhat similar in my old project. here is what i do :

Added a new link in My Account section from customers.xml ie

<action method="addLink" translate="label" module="preorder"><name>Previous_Orders</name><path>preorder/index/</path><label>Previous Orders</label></action>

In your case you can use an already running module instead of preorder and change the name in above action.

In module/contollers/IndexController.php add a view as follows :

public function viewAction()
    {
        $this->loadLayout();     
        $this->renderLayout();
    }

Add preorder/preorder.phtml template folder in your theme template folder.

in your theme layout folder add preorder.xml as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
    </default>
    <preorder_index_index>
        <label>Customer My Account Previous Orders</label>
        <update handle="customer_account"/>
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="preorder/preorder" name="preorder" template="preorder/preorder.phtml" />

        </reference>
    </preorder_index_index>
</layout> 

Hope you ot the idea, what we have done is created a new module which loads the template on index action, you cn change the name of module "preorder" and also the action "index" while working on this.

I was very brief while writing this, Hope this helps you in someway.