Customizing and adding woocommerce template data

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I am having some trouble customizing the woocommerce templates in my wordpress theme. I would like to add additional data as variables in my templates.

I want to show active orders on the dashboard/my-account page. I want to do this by passing in order data variables to the template to be able to call, like how it is done in the

orders.php

template.

I know I can override the

wc-template-functions.php

in my theme and then add the data in the

wc_get_templates

function for the dashboard or my account. However, I don't want to do this.

What I've tried is creating a hook such as:

<strong>functions.php</strong>

function wc_fr_add_orders_to_account( $fr_account_orders, $current_page ) {
  global $fr_account_orders;
  $current_page = empty( $current_page ) ? 1 : absint( $current_page );

  $customer_orders = wc_get_orders( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_my_account_my_orders_query', 
    array( 
      'customer' => get_current_user_id(), 
      'page' => $current_page, 
      'paginate' => true,
      'status' => array( 'wc-pending' )
      ) ) );

  $fr_account_orders = array(
    'current_page' => absint( $current_page ),
    'customer_orders' => $customer_orders,
    'has_orders' => 0 < $customer_orders->total
  );

  return $fr_account_orders;
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_account_content', 'wc_fr_add_orders_to_account' );

<strong>/theme-directory/woocommerce/templates/myaccount/dashboard.php</strong> (also tried in my-account.php)

do_action( 'woocommerce_account_dashboard', $fr_account_orders);
var_dump($fr_account_orders);

$fr_account_orders

comes back null. However if I

var_dump

the array in the hook function, it comes back with data. Any help is appreciated.