I am new to Magento and I tried this tutorial where I will create a controller for Magento 2. https://www.mageplaza.com/magento-2-module-development/how-to-create-controllers-magento-2.html
My problem is: When I try to go to the http://<yourbrowser>/helloworld or http://<yourbrowser>/helloworld/index/index, it renders a blank page.
I followed everything from the tutorial, just I renamed the /vendorName/moduleName to /custom/helloWorld
Here are the codes: app/code/custom/helloWorld/etc/frontend/routes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd">
<router id="standard">
<route frontName="helloworld" id="helloworld">
<module name="custom_helloWorld"/>
</route>
</router>
</config>
app/code/custom/helloWorld/Controller/Index/Index.php
<?php
namespace custom\helloWorld\Controller\Index;
class Index extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action
{
protected $_pageFactory;
public function __construct(
\Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $context,
\Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory $pageFactory)
{
$this->_pageFactory = $pageFactory;
return parent::__construct($context);
}
public function execute()
{
return $this->_pageFactory->create();
//Pagefactory is used to initialize the layout.
}
}
app/code/custom/helloWorld/view/frontend/layout/helloworld_index_index.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="1column" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<referenceContainer name="content">
<block class="custom\helloWorld\Block\Index" name="helloworld_index_index" template="custom_helloWorld::index.phtml" />
</referenceContainer>
</page>
app/code/custom/helloWorld/Block/Index.php
<?php
namespace custom\helloWorld\Block;
class Index extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template
{
}
app/code/custom/helloWorld/view/frontend/templates/index.phtml
<h2>Welcome to HELLO WORLD PAGE!</h2>
I already tried to flush the cache but same problem occur.
I hope you can help me. Thank you so much in advance!!
UPDATE: So I just copied whatever is in the link: https://www.mageplaza.com/magento-2-module-development/how-to-create-controllers-magento-2.html
And still renders a blank page...