If ever you are confused about how to add / edit / remove the top links from links section in magento, then this blog post would certainly help you by illustrating the exact process step by step. You may be blinking what is meant by the top links mentioned here. Just check out below to see the top links in header: My Account, My WishList ,Login, My Cart ,Checkout.

Top links in magento are managed in two different ways:

• By using the Layout XML files.
• By adding custom function.

Let us, first see how to add the new link in the existing top links section with help of the layout XML file. First we will see the basic syntax.

Magento Provides the manage customers feature to list and edit the customers information.
The Customer edit page in the admin panel gives details about the customers account information,address,orders etc.

In some scenarios we may need to show our custom module contents related to the customer in a additional tab. To achieve this functionality we need to create a custom module and add our tab.

Step 1: We start with our config.xml file. In this file we are specifying an adminhtml xml layout file and a Block class for our custom module.

app/code/local/Mydons/etc/config.xml