Hello, im a complete beginner in Magento 1.x and used this tutorial to create my first layout:
http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/magefordev/mage-for-dev-4.html
Recently i completed it till the point "The Layout" and have done everything exactly as described. But it only loads the default layout with no content in it.
My Controller:
app/code/local/Magentotutorial/Helloworld/controllers/IndexController.php
<?php
class Magentotutorial_Helloworld_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action {
public function indexAction() {
$this->loadLayout();
$this->renderLayout();
}
public function goodbyeAction() {
echo 'Goodbye World!';
}
public function paramsAction() {
echo ' ';
foreach($this->getRequest()->getParams() as $key=>$value) {
echo 'Param: '.$key.' | ';
echo 'Value: '.$value.'<br/>';
}
echo ' ';
}
}
My config.xml:
app/code/local/Magentotutorial/Helloworld/etc/config.xml
<config>
<modules>
<Magentotutorial_Helloworld>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Magentotutorial_Helloworld>
</modules>
<frontend>
<routers>
<helloworld>
<use>standard</use>
<args>
<module>Magentotutorial_Helloworld</module>
<frontName>helloworld</frontName>
</args>
</helloworld>
</routers>
</frontend>
</config>
My file to activate the module:
app/etc/modules/Magentotutorial_Helloworld.xml
<config>
<modules>
<Magentotutorial_Helloworld>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</Magentotutorial_Helloworld>
</modules>
</config>
My layout file:
app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/local.xml
<layout version="0.1.0">
<default>
<block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml" template="magentotutorial/helloworld/simple_page.phtml" />
</default>
</layout>
My template file:
app/design/frontend/base/default/template/magentotutorial/helloworld/simple_page.phtml
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color:#f00;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
If i write something in the indexAction function like this, it works and displays the text.
public function indexAction() {
echo "Hello World";
}But if i try to load the template i created like this, it always loads the default layout with no contend at all.
public function indexAction() {
$this->loadLayout();
$this->renderLayout();
}
Is there something wrong or missing? I searched for several hours now and could not find anything wrong, compared to the tutorial example.
