Guide to create basic simple module in magento2, helloworld module creation in magento2.

1. Create Hello World module In
Magento2

2. Introduction
Magento is an online ecommerce platform that’s used to develop modern, dynamic
web applications.
It’s an object-oriented PHP Framework .
This is the first article to print ‘Hello World’ in a series of articles in which we're
going to go on.

3. Contents
 Step 1: Create a directory for the module Hello world.
 Step 2: Create etc/module.xml file
 Step 3: Create registration.php file
 Step 4: Create routes.xml file
 Step 5: Create controller file and action
 Step 6: Enable the module

4. Step 1: Create a directory for the module
Hello World
 Create a folder like below given format:
Here,
 Eglobe - vender name
 Helloworld - module’s name
app/code/Eglobe/Helloworld

5. Step 2: Create etc/module.xml file
 Now, create etc folder and add the module.xml file
 Contents would be:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Mo dule/
etc/module.xsd">
<module name="Eglobe_HelloWorld" setup_version="1.0.0">
</module>
</config>
app/code/Eglobe/HelloWorld/etc/module.xml

6. Step 3: Create registration.php file
 Create registration.php as follows:
 Code Contents:
app/code/Eglobe/HelloWorld/registration.php
<?php
MagentoFrameworkComponent
ComponentRegistrar::register(MagentoFramework
ComponentComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
'Eglobe_HelloWorld', __DIR__);

7. Step 4: Create routes.xml file
• Create routes.xml file
app/code/Eglobe/Helloworld/etc/frontend/ routes.xml
• Code Contents:
<?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 id="eglobe" frontName="helloworld">
<module name="Eglobe_HelloWorld" />
</route>
</router>
</config>
After define the route, the URL path to our module will be: http://example.com/hellowo

8. Step 5: Create controller file and action
• Create controller file in the
• Create Display.php
app/code/Eglobe/HelloWorld/Index/Display.php
<?php
namespace EglobeHelloWorldControllerIndex;
class Display extends MagentoFrameworkAppActionAction
{ public function __construct(MagentoFrameworkAppActionContext
$context)
{ return parent::__construct($context);
}
public function execute() {
echo 'Hello World';
exit; }}
app/code/Eglobe/Helloworld/Controller/Index folder
• Content

9. Step 6: Enable the module
Open your terminal and go to magento2 root. Run the following command there:
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
sudo chmod -R 777 var pub/static generated
Now open the url http://example.com/helloworld/index/display and you will see He