Controller routes is a important factor for any Module Development in MVC Framework. It work like to receive request, process that and then rendering. In Magento there are 2 types of controllers, Frontend Controller & Admin Controller ( knows as Backend Controller). The behaviour of these two controller are quite similar instead of checking permission in Admin Controller using form-key.

Before moving forward, let’s know about the route path:

https://itechinsiders.com/route_name/controller_name/action_class

Here,

route_name (frontName):  route_name/frontName define in routes.xml ( i.e. vendorName/moduleName/etc/frontend/routes.xml) 

controller_name: it is nothing but folder name inside of Controller (i.e.  vendorName/moduleName/Controller/controller_name/ )

action_class:  nothing but a .php class having execute() method to process business logic inside the controller_name folder. ( i.e. vendorName/moduleName/Controller/controller_name/action_class.php )

Step 1: Create routes.xml file

Follow the path “app\code\Itech\Insiders\etc\frontend\routes.xml” and put the code as below. Let’s suppose my vendor name is ‘Itech’ and module name is ‘Insiders’ also the route name is ‘magento’ (see below code)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd">
<router id="standard">
<route frontName="magento" id="magento">
<module name="Itech_Insiders">
</route>
</router>
</config>;

Step 2: Create Controller file
Follow the path “app\code\Itech\Insiders\Controller\Index\Index.php”

<?php
namespace Itech\Insiders\Controller\Index;

class Index extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action

{

protected $_pageFactory;

public function __construct(
\Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $context,
\Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory $pageFactory)
{
return parent::__construct($context);
}

public function execute()
{

$this->sayHello();

}

public function sayHello()

{

/*

Put Your Logic here

*/

}
}

Step 3: Now clean your magento cache by using :
bin/magento cache:clean 
Step 4:  Let’s open the URL
http://www.< yourdomain >.com/magento/index
You will get result “Hello  User” on screen .
ThankYou 🙂
Praveen Maurya
Praveen Maurya work in e-commerce domain having knowledge of Plugin development in Magento 1.x/2.x, Drupal, Woo-Commerce, PrestaShop, Opencart and other e-commerce solution. When he is not engrossed with anything related to these, he loves to explore new things.
http://praveen.itechinsiders.com/