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i am learning to create a module from here.

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/magefordev/mage-for-dev-4.html

And on in this article everything is fine even workin also but i want to know where local.xml file is declared.

app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/local.xml

When i call this action method how it know that it have to load template from layout/local.xml. why it did not try to load template from other xml file? 

public function call_blockaction() { //remove our previous echo //echo 'Hello Index!'; $this->loadLayout(); $this->renderLayout(); }
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local.xml is only used as part of your custom theme and should not be used when creating a module. If you have your own layout instructions use something like 

<config> <frontend> <layout> <updates> <fooman_example> <file>fooman_example.xml</file> </fooman_example> </updates> </layout> </frontend> </config>

and then create the file app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/fooman_example.xml

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  • do you mean it works like default layout xml file? what happen if i will delete local.xml? when i create module it was not there? Commented Dec 2, 2015 at 2:42
  • Not sure that I understand the last comment, again if you are developing a custom module you should never need to have a local.xml. If you are customising a theme then using a local.xml is the recommended approach see for example inchoo.net/magento/… Commented Dec 2, 2015 at 23:12

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