The anatomy of a URL in Magento

Magento is a Model-View-Controller, or MVC framework, and how Magento handles a web request has a lot to do with how the request is structured, and the routers available in Magento.

The standard router looks at the URL path, and breaks it down into basically three parts: the front name, controller name, and action name. Magento then executes the appropriate code based on these names.

Looking at an example, let’s click the Sign In link at the top of the demo Magento sit...