diff --git a/config/module.config.php b/config/module.config.php
index 077878a..020b8b3 100644
--- a/config/module.config.php
+++ b/config/module.config.php
@@ -1,16 +1,44 @@
 <?php
+use Laminas\Router\Http\Literal;
 namespace ArchiveSiteMeta;
 
 return [
+    //https://docs.laminas.dev/tutorials/getting-started/routing-and-controllers/
+    'router' => [
+        'routes' => [
+            'archiveSiteMeta' => [
+                //'type' => \Laminas\Router\Http\Segment::class,
+                'type' => \Laminas\Router\Http\Literal::class,
+                'options' => [
+                    'route' => '/api/collections/search',
+                    'defaults' => [
+                        '__NAMESPACE__' => 'ArchiveSiteMeta\Controller',
+                        'controller' => Controller\ArchiveSiteMetaController::class,
+                        'action'     => 'index',
+                    ],
+                ],
+            ],
+        ],
+    ],
+    'controllers' => [
+        'invokables' => [
+            Controller\ArchiveSiteMetaController::class => Controller\ArchiveSiteMetaController::class,
+        ],
+    ],
     'view_manager' => [
         'template_path_stack' => [
             dirname(__DIR__) . '/view',
         ],
+        'strategies' => [
+            'ViewJsonStrategy',
+        ],
         'template_map' => [
+          // used to remove available blocks when editing a page
+          'omeka/site-admin/page/edit' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/omeka/site-admin/page/edit.phtml',
+           //'archive-site-meta/archive-site-meta/index' => __DIR__ . '/../view/collections/index.phtml',
            //'layout/layout' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/layout/layout.phtml',
            //'omeka/index/index' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/omeka/site/index/index.phtml',
-           'omeka/search/results' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/omeka/search/results.phtml',
-           'omeka/site-admin/page/edit' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/omeka/site-admin/page/edit.phtml',
+           //'omeka/search/results' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/omeka/search/results.phtml',
            //'common/site-list-entry' => __DIR__ . '/../../../themes/archive/view/common/site-list-entry.phtml',
          ],
     ],
diff --git a/src/Controller/ArchiveSiteMetaController.php b/src/Controller/ArchiveSiteMetaController.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9980ef9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Controller/ArchiveSiteMetaController.php
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+<?php
+namespace ArchiveSiteMeta\Controller;
+
+use Laminas\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
+use Laminas\View\Model\JsonModel;
+
+class ArchiveSiteMetaController extends AbstractActionController
+{
+
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+
+    }
+    public function indexAction()
+    {
+
+      $query = [
+          'limit' => 10,
+          //'in_sites' => true,
+          'fulltext_search' => $this->params()->fromQuery('fulltext_search'),
+      ];
+      $resources = [
+          'site_pages' => [
+              'action' => 'site-pages',
+              'query' => $query,
+              'response' => null,
+          ],
+          'items' => [
+              'action' => 'items',
+              'query' => array_merge($query, ['in_sites' => true]),
+              'response' => null,
+          ],
+          /*
+          'item_sets' => [
+              'action' => 'item-sets',
+              'query' => array_merge($query, ['in_sites' => true]),
+              'response' => null,
+          ],
+          */
+      ];
+
+    $resourceNames = ['site_pages', 'items'];
+
+    //$ids = $this->api()->search('site_pages', $query)->getContent();
+    //$ids = $this->api()->search('site_pages', $query, ['return' => 'site'])->getContent();
+    //$ids = $this->api()->search('site_pages', $query, ['returnScalar' => 'site'])->getContent();
+
+    $query_results = array();
+    $items = $this->api()->search('items', $resources['items']['query'])->getContent();
+    foreach($items as $item) {
+      foreach($item->sites() as $site){
+        array_push($query_results, $site->id());
+      }
+    }
+    $pages = $this->api()->search('site_pages',
+                                  $resources['site_pages']['query'],
+                                  ['returnScalar' => 'site'])->getContent();
+    foreach($pages as $page) {
+        array_push($query_results, (int)$page);
+    }
+    $search_results = [];
+    foreach($query_results as $site_id) {
+       if (array_key_exists($site_id, $search_results)) {
+         $search_results[$site_id] = $search_results[$site_id] + 1;
+       } else {
+         $search_results[$site_id] = 1;
+       }
+    }
+    return new JsonModel($search_results);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/view/collections/index.phtml b/view/collections/index.phtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd4d315
--- /dev/null
+++ b/view/collections/index.phtml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+
+<?php echo "this is index.phtml"; ?>