Question

I am creating a module that will have its own page at mysite.com/memymodule/index/index

I want to add functionality from a template file from at templates/me/template.phtml

I have an index controller like this:

<?php
    class me_mymodule_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action {        

        public function indexAction() {

            $this->loadLayout();     
            $this->renderLayout();
    }
}
?>

I have a layout update mymodule.xml that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <mymodule_index_index>
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="core/template" name="me.mymodule" template="me/template.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </mymodule_index_index>
</layout>

The frontName of the module is mymodule

When the page renders the content block is completely empty and the content of template.phtml is completely ignored.

Help much appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

Try this Code within your Controller’s Action –

 var_dump(Mage::getSingleton('core/layout')->getUpdate()->getHandles());

 exit("Your Layout Path is ".__LINE__." in ".__FILE__);

This code tells you about the Tag which you need to create within Layout.xml.

Also check Config.xml that the Layout Update Section is correctly defined or not.

Hope it’ll be beneficial for you.

THANKS