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I'm so confused... Blesta needs a proper template system... This makes no sense, This is so confusing. I have never had this much trouble working with a billing system in my life... And i haven't really even tried to do much cause its so damn confusing. My template is pure HTML / CSS. No biggy. Then you look at the blesta .pdt files and i go wtf? where does half these go? I don't want the standard Blesta theme. All i want to do is place the Blesta PHP wrapped inside my custom HTML and bam done. But what i keep getting here is i have to do a ton of work or something... All i should have to do is edit a file, change all the HTML and place the template calls where they belong and it should work.... I can't get any of this straight... I just keep getting told to use this mod or edit this portal and that shouldn't be needed... I can't even get it straight, I'm so confused on this entire subject it's almost worth just bailing on Blesta and creating a WHMCS theme and spending the money on WHMCS rather than Blesta simply because of simplicity regardless of security. This is just plain outright stupid. EDIT: Like seriously.... Theming Blesta is so confusing it's ridiculous. This: vs This: What's easier to work with and more appealing? Definitely not Blesta. The opponents script is a million times easier to work with, Why? Because they have a proper system. Regardless of security and how much better Blesta is I'm almost just flat outright tempted to dump the Blesta idea entirely and code on a script that doesn't take ages to figure out let alone design.

Similar to them both actually. But rather this: With BB all i would have had to do was insert the javascript call & add the order button variables and bam that would of worked. Now i see that you guys are trying to help, & I'm probably making this much harder than it needs to be. But is there a step by step guide on doing this or a tut or something? I hate trying to blindly modify a bunch of things. It makes doing the coding take forever by having to locate the files and modify them properly. If Blesta had a proper template engine this wouldn't be a problem but since the entire system is based on a file loaded with html wrapped around PHP (or the other way around, w/e) it's much more complicated and actually needs some kind of guide to do this without taking forever to do properly. Thanks again guys, Sorry if I'm making it more work than it needs to be. - Beware

Thanks, Although i can see how that would work for the portal itself, How does one go about creating custom pages like Contact (with Custom content), A custom order page (i have one just need to find a way to implement the order buttons with products and getting the page on Blesta in the first place), etc. ? By looking at Rodrigo's code it appears as though it only modifies the portal? There isn't much in terms of documentation to that modification as to how to add more pages than just modify the portal. I have experience in doing this sort of thing with WHMCS, BoxBilling isn't too hard either but BB has way too much in it, It's more of a CMS / Billing system but contains way too many modules for what i need and it's a pain to work with when you get down to its javascript (error popups). I see that Blesta uses it's .pbt files with a mix of HTML / PHP but implementing custom pages would be the main goal to get my custom template ported to a Blesta template then working from there. Figuring this stuff out is the first step towards that Thanks again - Beware

Hello all, Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I would like to know how to create custom pages within Blesta. I have setup a trial install on my PC locally to develop the Blesta system with a custom developed theme that i created and i am having trouble figuring this out. I'd like to be able to use my custom order page and link the order buttons to "add to cart" type of functionality & order that product. I'd also like to know how you modify the portal page. I'm having trouble locating the portal page template. I am currently just developing the entire main site for my hosting company (I haven't started it yet, Just in development) and would like to get all this figured out so i can develop this software with my custom design and test it all out. Thanks - Beware