Question

I am trying to create a new custom module in magento but the layout is not loading. It always load three column layout which is defined as a default in page.xml file. I think it is not considering the layout set for my module action even if it is mentioned in the config.xml file like this-

<frontend>
        <routers>
            <mynamespace_test>
                <use>standard</use>
                <args>
                    <module>Mynamespace_Test</module>
                    <frontName>test</frontName>
                </args>
            </mynamespace_test>
        </routers>  
  <layout>
          <updates>
              <test><file>test.xml</file></test>
          </updates>
      </layout>
    </frontend>

and my test.xml looks like this:-

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <test_index_index translate="label">
        <label>Test module</label>
        <reference name="root">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template></action>
        </reference>     
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="test/this" name="test.this" template="test/test.phtml" />
        </reference>
    </test_index_index>
</layout>

and my controller is defined like this:-

class mynamespace_Test_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{
 function indexAction()
 {
  $this->loadLayout();
        $this->renderLayout();
 }

}

Please help! what I am missing.
Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, I got it working. I understood the problem is not there with layout file after pointing the layout file of some other module. The thing is wrong with this is mentioning namespace while defining router for module:

I updated this block of code:-

<routers>
            <mynamespace_test>
                <use>standard</use>
                <args>
                    <module>Mynamespace_Test</module>
                    <frontName>test</frontName>
                </args>
            </mynamespace_test>
        </routers>  

to

<routers>
            <test>
                <use>standard</use>
                <args>
                    <module>Mynamespace_Test</module>
                    <frontName>test</frontName>
                </args>
            </test>
        </routers> 

and it worked fine.

Thanks.