Now that we are capable of saving and manipulating the data by using our models, we need to provide a way for customers to interact with the actual gift registries; that is our first step. We need to create valid routes or URLs in the frontend.
As with many things in Magento, this is controlled by the configuration file. A route will convert a URL into a valid controller, action, and method.
Open our config.xml file. The file location is app/code/local/Mdg/Giftregistry/etc/config.xml. Refer to the following code:
<config>
…
<frontend>
<routers>
<mdg_giftregistry>
<use>standard</use>
<args>
<module>Mdg_Giftregistry</module>
<frontName>giftregistry</frontName>
</args>
</mdg_giftregistry>
</routers>
</frontend>
…
</config>Let's break down the configuration...