Terms of service page

I'm wanting to add a terms of service page to my WHMCS site, but I'm confused as to which would be the best option. Do I create a tos.tpl and use includes to incorporate the header.tpl and footer.tpl or do I just copy and paste the header and footer code into my tos.tpl?

Also, if I wanted to add it as a menu item in the top menu of WHMCS portal, how would I go about it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm wanting to add a terms of service page to my WHMCS site, but I'm confused as to which would be the best option. Do I create a tos.tpl and use includes to incorporate the header.tpl and footer.tpl or do I just copy and paste the header and footer code into my tos.tpl?

there is a free addon in Marketplace that can do this for you - Terms of Service.

but if you want to do it yourself, then your best bet might be to create a terms.php in the root of your WHMCS (e.g the same folder as configuration.php) and use similar code to below to create the parent page...

<?php

use WHMCS\ClientArea;

define('CLIENTAREA', true);

require __DIR__ . '/init.php';

$ca = new ClientArea();

$ca->setPageTitle(Lang::trans('ordertos'));

$ca->addToBreadCrumb('index.php', Lang::trans('globalsystemname'));
$ca->addToBreadCrumb('terms.php', Lang::trans('ordertos'));

$ca->initPage();

$ca->setTemplate('terms');

$ca->output();

and then in your chosen template folder (e.g Six), create the terms.tpl template with your T&C formatted to however you want...

Also, if I wanted to add it as a menu item in the top menu of WHMCS portal, how would I go about it?

if you mean the navbar, then you'd need to use an action hook similar to below... e.g create a new .php file in /includes/hooks, call it termsnavbar.php and add the following code...

<?php

add_hook('ClientAreaPrimaryNavbar', 1, function($primaryNavbar)
{
   $primaryNavbar->addChild('terms', array(
       'uri' => 'terms.php',
       'label' => Lang::trans('ordertos'),
       'order' => 100,
       'icon' => 'fa-gavel',
   ));
});

and you'll get a link in the navbar...

now, the exact hook code that you should use, will depend on exactly where you want to add the menu item, e.g is is primary (left side), is it secondary (right side - Account) and/or is it on it's own, or as part of an existing dropdown?? they can all be done, but would each require slightly different coding.

the Navbar Cheatsheet from the documentation should help, but there are plenty of similar example hooks posted here in the forums - worst case, come back and tell us exactly where you want to add the link.

Thanks for the instructions brian! it was very useful. I used the addon module for the terms and created a page for my privacy policy then added an unordered list in the footer.tpl and linked to them both from there.