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Frontend Development
Let's break down the configuration code we just added:
• : Previously, we added all the configuration inside the global
scope; since we want our routes to be only available in the frontend, we need
to declare our custom routes under the frontend scope
• : This is the container tag that holds the configuration for our
custom routes
• : The naming convention for this tag is to match the
module name and is the unique identifier for our route
• : As we learned in Chapter 2, Magento Fundamentals for
Developers, Magento breaks down the URLs into http://localhost.com /
frontName/actionControllerName/actionMethod/.
Once we have defined our route configuration, we need to create an actual controller
to handle all the incoming requests.
The index controller
Our first step is to create IndexController under our module controllers directory.
Magento will always try to load IndexController if no controller name is specified.
The file location is app/code/local/Mdg/Giftregistry/controllers/Index.php.
Refer to the following code: