How to Create New Module in Magento 2?

March 16, 2022

Magento

A Magento module is a package collection of Php, xml and phtml files and these files are included in folders like blocks, controllers, helpers and models. Modules provide specific business feature that extends the functionality of the online store.

In this blog, we will learn how we can create a custom module in Magento 2 and for that, we will follow the below simple steps to create a module:

Create the module folder
Create the module.xml file
Create the registration.php file
Create the composer.json file
Enable the Module

Step 1:Create the module folder

For creating a module folder, first define a module in app/code directory with app/code//. For example, our Vendor name is MageAnts and Module name is Blog.

Step 2:Create the module.xml file

Now let’s create module.xml file for declaring a module.

Create module.xml file at app/code/Mageants/Blog/etc/module.xml and write below code.

<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<config xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=”urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd”> <module name=”Mageants_Blog” setup_version=”1.0.0″> </module> </config>

Step 3:Create the registration.php file

To register the module, create registration.php file at app/code/Mageants/Blog and write below code:

<?php
\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register( \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE, ‘Mageants_Blog’, __DIR__ );

registration.php file is a standardized file that follow the same pattern in all Magento modules.

Step 4:Create the composer.json file

Now create composer.json file in app/code/Mageants/Blog and add below code:

<?php
{
“name”: “mageants/blog”,
“description”: “”,
“require”: {
“php”: “~5.5.0|~5.6.0|~7.0.0”
},
“type”: “magento2-module”,
“version”: “1.0.0”,
“license”: [
“OSL-3.0”,
“AFL-3.0”
],
“autoload”: {
“files”: [
“registration.php”
],
“psr-4”: {
“Mageants\\Blog\\”: “”
}
}
}