Add a simple page
We will now add a simple "About" page to the website we installed previously.
Add an action method
Adding a new page is done by adding a new action method that returns a simple html-string. Open the Application/Controllers/IndexController.php file and add the aboutAction method below:
/**
* The index controller class.
*/
class IndexController extends Controller
{
/**
* The index action.
*
* @return View The view for this action.
*/
public function indexAction(): View
{
$this->setViewItem('Title', 'My website');
return new View();
}
public function aboutAction(): string
{
return '<h1>About this website</h1>';
}
}
Check the result
Use your browser to navigate to the url http://localhost/about. A very simple page should be displayed:
With a few exceptions, the name of the action method will automatically be mapped to the last part of the url. A request for the url http://localhost/about will invoke our new action method. Similarly, an action method with the name fooAction would be invoked for http://localhost/foo and so on.
It's not very impressive and certainly not a valid html-page, but this will be improved in the next parts of this tutorial.
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