Display Block on Custom Admin Page

Question

This should be a fairly easy one, I hope. I've looked over Alan Storm's tutorial on the topic a hundred times, but still can't figure out what I'm missing. I just want to get my custom admin page to hit my controller's indexAction(), where I will then be rendering my layout, etc. For this question I'm just looking for an answer that hits my controller die statement when I click on my page in the admin.

Have already made sure:

1. cache is cleared
2. module is enabled and working, overall

Here's the relevant code:

app/code/local/Company/MyModule/etc/config.xml:

<config>
 <modules>
 <Company_MyModule>
 <version>1.0.0</version>
 </Company_MyModule>
 </modules>
 <global>
 <blocks>
 <mymodule>
 <class>Company_MyModule_Block</class>
 </mymodule>
 </blocks>
 <helpers>
 <mymodule>
 <class>Company_MyModule_Helper</class>
 </mymodule>
 </helpers>
 </global>
 <admin>
 <routers>
 <adminhtml>
 <args>
 <modules>
 <mymodule before="Mage_Adminhtml">Company_MyModule_Adminhtml</mymodule>
 </modules>
 </args>
 </adminhtml>
 </routers>
 </admin>
 <adminhtml>
 <menu>
 <mymodule module="mymodule">
 <title>My Custom Page</title>
 <sort_order>100</sort_order>
 <action>adminhtml/MyModule/homepage/index</action>
 </mymodule>
 </menu>
 <acl>
 <resources>
 <all>
 <title>Allow Everything</title>
 </all>
 <admin>
 <children>
 <mymodule translate="title" module="mymodule">
 <title>MyModule</title>
 <sort_order>1000</sort_order>
 <children>
 <mymodulebackend translate="title" module="mymodule">
 <title>My Custom Page</title>
 </mymodulebackend>
 </children>
 </mymodule>
 </children>
 </admin>
 </resources>
 </acl>
 </adminhtml>
</config>

app/code/local/Company/MyModule/controllers/Adminhtml/MyModule/HomepageController.php:

<?php
die();
class Company_MyModule_Adminhtml_MyModule_HomepageController extends Mage_Adminhtml_Controller_Action
{
 /**
 * Just a test action
 */
 public function indexAction()
 {
 die('here');
 $this->loadLayout();
 $this->renderLayout();
 }
}

Help greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I think you have wrong in action tag when calling to your menu.

 <menu>
 <mymodule module="mymodule">
 <title>My Custom Page</title>
 <sort_order>100</sort_order>
 <action>adminhtml/homepage/index</action>
 </mymodule>
 </menu>

Your controller should reside in:

app/code/local/Company/controllers/Adminhtml/HomepageController.php

UPDATE

Just remove "MyModule" folder and place your Homepagecontroller.php inside Adminhtml folder.

[Off topic a little]

I also have recommendation if you allow it. Not that I question @AlanStorm's authority (I would never do that :D ), for consistency reasons I think it's best yo put your admin controllers inside an Adminhtml folder.

• Dan Hennion: Did indeed have the names mixed up. I've updated my code above based on your answer. Unfortunately I'm still getting a 404
• Adarsh Khatri: Please check my updated answer.
• Dan Hennion: This is odd, I now get a 200 response and a white page, with no output (doesn't have the contents of my die). I set a breakpoint in xdebug and have confirmed it is not hitting that die statement. Very odd.
• Adarsh Khatri: That is because you have die() (2 places) in your controller. Simply comment them.
• Dan Hennion: Brillaint. Thank you so much! You've been very helpful :)