Extending Adminhtml

Mage_Adminhtml is a single module that provides all the backend functionality for Magento through the usage of configuration. As we learned before, Magento uses scopes to define the configuration. In the previous chapter, we used the frontend scope to set up the configuration for our custom module.

To modify the backend, we need to create a new scope in our configuration file called admin. Perform the following steps to do so:

Open the config.xml file.

Add the following code to the file located at app/code/local/Mdg/Giftregistry/etc/config.xml:

<admin>
  <routers>
    <mdg_giftregistry>
      <use>admin</use>
        <args>
          <module>Mdg_Giftregistry_Adminhmtl</module>
          <frontName>giftregistry</frontName>
        </args>
    </mdg_giftregistry>
  </routers>
</admin>

This code is very similar to the one we used before to specify our frontend route. However, by declaring the...

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