Adding to the User Contact Dashboard

[RachelWright]

I'd like to add some information to the user dashboard. I was thinking of trying a hook, but cannot find a function related to the user dashboard.  I found this link: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,22114.msg92633.html#msg92633

but need some help with the two suggestions.

1. is to use the pageRun hook and the customize the template. (I've done some poking but couldn't find an example to start from or a helpful push)
2.xxx.extra.tpl works great to inject more stuff. IN conjunction with crmAPI   

[lcdweb]

yes, I would take that approach. something like this (inside your plugin):

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function civicrm_pageRun( &$page ) {
  if ( $page->getVar('_name') == 'CRM_Contact_Page_View_UserDashBoard' ) {
    require_once 'api/api.php';

    $config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton();

    //we only care about frontend display
    if ( !$config->userFrameworkFrontend ) {
      return;
    }

    //construct content for the user
    //can use $page->_contactId to filter api calls and queries on the user

    //now assign content to a smarty variable so I can iterate through in the tpl file
    $page->assign('myStuff', $myStuff);
  }
}


[RachelWright]

Oh my gosh, you're a life saver, exactly what I needed!!!!!