adding a magento page to the catalog

Question

I want to add another page in the magento module like the following...

<catalog_wizard_default translate="label">
  <reference name="content">
   <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.topnav" template="catalog/navigation/top.phtml"/>
            <block type="catalog/category_view" name="category.products" template="catalog/category/view.phtml"/>
  </reference>
 </catalog_wizard_default>

so when customer types in the url, they can do it like so

domain.com/catalog/wizard. I have no idea how to do this. I tried adding another action in the catalog controller like the following

  public function wizardAction(){
  $this->renderLayout();
 }

But this doesnt seem to work.

Answer 1

This should work. I think you need to call $this->loadLayout() before you render the layout...

Answer 2

Generally, a layout handle of catalog_wizard_default will translate into the following Module-Controller-Action path: Mage_Catalog - WizardController - defaultAction().

I would suggest that you need to follow these instructions to copy CategoryController to app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/controllers and add an action called wizardAction(). Your layout will then be called <catalog_category_wizard>.

Unfortunately overriding/extended core controllers is quite complicated in Magento, so make sure you follow the wiki instructions carefully.

Hope this helps. JD