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Using CiviCRM hooks you can do this
Refer: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmtabs

Rajan

I should have explained myself a little better, sorry about that.  What I would like to do is a have a new tab that points to some php file I created which outputs HTML of data from Civi joined to other sources, etc (not necessarily just Civi info).  Basically, I have some code that displays a table of information or two, related to a contact, and I'd like to show that in a contact tab (in between Contributions and Pledges, in our case).  It's not just civi custom groups/fields, but my own code, if you will.

Rajan, I have read and tried out the civicrm_tabs hook, but I think my confusion is at a higher level than that.  I have no clue how the url string in the hook points to a specific file on the server.  So, where do I put my php code, and then how to I reference that in the hook properly?  It seems like I'm just missing something simple here.  Maybe because I don't understand how Drupal is translating the URL to point to actual files.

Does anyone have just the basic step-by-step instructions for this?  I need to know:
-- what types of files to create - do I need a php file plus a template file?
-- where to put those files
-- how to reference those files in the hook
-- if the php/template code needs to have any special handling so it all works

I hope this all makes sense - I couldn't find a single place that has these steps (except for some old wiki doc that doesn't say the name of files, just shows code snippets).  I sure would appreciate some help here, apologies for being relatively new to this area.

Yupe, as told above u need to write custom drupal module,
So hook_menu ( http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--hooks--core.php/function/hook_menu/6 ) will register the url and function ( ie page ) to be call for that menu, in this function u can build your date to be displayed on the contact tab.
Then u just need to implement hook_civicrm_tabs with the url that u registered using hook_menu.

Rajan