First of all, I must apologize for the lack of knowledge on this issue. I am still new to Magento, and with the information I came across I should get this job. I started with here . I can get the Ajax method to call, but I get empty 2column-left.phtml as my output (so I see the header, left column, empty main column and footer). I have my files installed like this:
app / local / MyModule / Featured / Block / Featured.php
<?php
class MyModule_Featured_Block_Featured extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
public function __construct()
{
$this->_controller = 'featured';
$this->_blockGroup = 'featured';
parent::__construct();
}
}
?>
app / local / MyModule / Featured / controllers / FeaturedController.php
<?php
class MyModule_Featured_FeaturedController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{
public function displayAction()
{
$this->loadLayout()->renderLayout();
}
}
?>
app / local / MyModule / Featured / etc / config.xml
<config>
<modules>
<MyModule_Featured>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</MyModule_Featured>
</modules>
<frontend>
<routers>
<featured>
<use>standard</use>
<args>
<module>MyModule_Featured</module>
<frontName>featured</frontName>
</args>
</featured>
</routers>
</frontend>
</config>
app / design / frontend / default / myLayout / layout / local.xml
<config>
<featured_featured_display>
<block type="module/block" name="root" output="toHtml" template="catalog/product/featured.phtml" />
</featured_featured_display>
</config>
Ajax code on phtml homepage:
var url = "<?php echo $this->getUrl('featured/featured/display') ;?>";
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#featured-products').load(url);
});