In this recipe, we will customize the frontend of our previously created page with a custom layout XML file.
For adding a layout file, we have to add some configuration in the config.xml
file of the module and a layout XML file as well.
In the following steps, we will learn how to add a layout file to the Magento module.
Add the following configuration to your
config.xml
file to initialize the layout XML file. Add it as a child of the<frontend>
tag:<layout> <updates> <helloworld> <file>helloworld.xml</file> </helloworld> </updates> </layout>
Create the
helloworld.xml
file in your theme layout folder in theapp/design/frontend/<package>/<theme>/layout/helloworld.xml
directory.In the
helloworld.xml
file, add the following content to test if the file is loaded:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <layout> <default> <remove name="header...