additional parameters in magento's customer.xml layout file

Question

i'm trying to add some explanatory text to the top customer links (my account, my cart etc) via the customer.xml file from the blank theme (this is in Magento 1.4.1.1)

i think that magento has the capability out of the box by issuing afterText or beforeText parameters, but when i use them it only seems to shove things before the link (not after, which is what I'm after).

here's an extract from customer.xml that includes the additional < afterText > parameter:

<default>
    <!-- Mage_Customer -->
    <reference name="top.links">
      <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer"><label>Your Account</label><url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/><title>Your Account</title><prepare/><urlParams/><position>10</position><null /><aParams>rel="nofollow"</aParams><afterText>click to login</afterText></action>  
    </reference>
</default>

has anyone had any luck with this before? does it need some additional arguments for liParams?

thanks in advance!

EDIT: here's the final code that seems to be working for me. Note the addition of the extra fields as suggested by thanks for this, it helped a lot. both you and @Zyava answer below helped me sort it out. There's one field missing from your suggestion above (the innerText field). I've put the full code below that looks to be working for me. hope it helps someone else!

    <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer">
         <label>Your Account</label>
         <url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/>
         <title>Your Account</title>
         <prepare/>
         <urlParams/>
         <liParams/>
         <aParams>rel="nofollow"</aParams>
         <innerText/>
         <beforeText>yourbeforetext</beforeText>
         <afterText>youraftertext</afterText></action>

big thank you to @clockworkgeek and @zyava - both of your answers helped me get through this.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '11 at 21:13

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Unfortunately the XML tag names don't relate to the variable parameters, it is the number of parameters that matters. You need to specify all parameters up to afterText including beforeText.

<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="customer">
    <label>Your Account</label>
    <url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/>
    <title>Your Account</title>
    <prepare/>
    <urlParams/>
    <position>10</position>
    <liParams/>
    <aParams>rel="nofollow"</aParams>
    <beforeText/>
    <afterText>click to login</afterText>
</action>

answered Sep 06 '11 at 21:13

clockworkgeek

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thanks clockworkgeek - this worked, it just needed the addition of – Andrew Sep 07 '11 at 12:17
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Is there a reason for this? It's seems pants-on-head retarded. – Mr_Chimp Oct 10 '14 at 16:38
I guess because underneath it's using [`call_user_func_array`](http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func-array.php) which also does not match up variable names, it only cares about the order of entries. To do otherwise would mean extra effort doing reflection, which is unnecessary when you can just give the right number of parameters. – clockworkgeek Oct 10 '14 at 16:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '11 at 21:02

Block 'top.links' has type Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links. Look at Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links::addLink() method:

public function addLink($label, $url='', $title='', $prepare=false, $urlParams=array(),
    $position=null, $liParams=null, $aParams=null, $beforeText='', $afterText='')
{

As we can see, $afterText parameter exists here. Now go to your theme's page/template/links.phtml, in my case it is \app\design\frontend\base\default\template\page\template\links.phtml and check that something like <?php echo $_link->getAfterText() ?> is present there.

thanks zyava - looking at the function helped spot a field i wasn't aware of - works now. — Andrew, Sep 07 '11 at 12:18

additional parameters in magento's customer.xml layout file

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