Building a controller and a view for Magento

We will not describe the whole process of creating a controller and a view in the Moufgento documentation. Indeed, Moufgento is just a compatibility layer on top of the Splash MVC framework. Therefore, you can simply refer to the Splash MVC video tutorial to get started.

Integrating with Magento theme

When you run Moufgento's installer, a magentoTemplate instance will be created. This instance represents the current Magento theme.

In your controller, assuming $this->template refers to the magentoTemplate instance, if you want to display a page wrapped in the default template, your controller action must end with:

use Mouf\Html\HtmlElement;

public function index() {
    //...
    return new HtmlElement($this->template);
}

If you do not call this method, the Magento theme will not be displayed and the response will be directly sent to the browser. This is a fairly easy way to do some Ajax since you won't be polluted by the Magento theme at all.

Managing the title

As with any Splash templates, you can modify the title of the template using the setTitle.

/**
 * @URL mytest
 */
public function index() {
    //...

    $this->template->setTitle('My title');

    return new HtmlElement($this->template);
}

What next?

Learn more about:

Web library (JS/CSS) >

Blocks integration >

Authentication and authorization >

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