Create a controller action in Magento

Even though we have our module set up to handle web requests for the blog URL, if we try to load the /blog URL, a 404 error page will be returned. This is because even though our route is set up, a controller must also exist to be able to handle the incoming request.

A controller is just a regular PHP class. Magento looks for controllers in the Controller folder of a module, so let’s go ahead and create it. Be very sure to capitalize the C in Controller, otherwise you’ll have all sorts of odd errors eventually on case sensitive operating systems.

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