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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By : Hayati Hashim
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PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide

By: Hayati Hashim

Overview of this book

Themes in PrestaShop are unique and powerful tools to brand your store for a particular corporate image. Using custom themes you can control the look and functionality of your web store, thereby making your site extremely flexible. Although it might sound like an easy task to build a theme, it is quite challenging to create a custom theme that fits your business needs. This book's prime focus is guiding the readers without much technical know-how, thus enabling them to create a new theme that fulfills the needs of their PrestaShop store. By understanding practical ways to develop your theme for PrestaShop speedily, you can invest more time on developing attractive and unique raw materials. It will simplify the challenging task of creating a unique, new PrestaShop theme through easy-to-follow, practical steps. This book shows how to develop professional themes for your PrestaShop store using some simple steps. The book starts by exploring the various ways of changing the looks (including modules) of your PrestaShop store. It shows you how certain back office administration adjustments can affect the appearance and theme of your store. It then takes you through understanding the code modification of a default theme that results in a new look for your existing theme. The book also covers understanding the PrestaShop architecture and essential syntaxes that control the look of a PrestaShop store. You will also learn about the files that hold the key to themes. By the end of this book, you will have grasped the knowledge to make advanced changes by tweaking the right CSS and module files in order to achieve highly specific outcomes.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.3 ThemingBeginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
4
Adjusting Style Sheets
Index

Free third party module files used


The following are the list of the free module files used to enhance your theme. These are free and have been tested on PrestaShop 1.3.1:

  • YouTube module

  • jcarousels

  • Gallery view

  • Moving Boxes

  • Horizontal top menu

  • Category block on top menu

  • Blockfooterdata

  • Page Peels

These modules can be put into /themes/modules directory or the main modules directory that is /modules/.

For any modules to work within the /themes/modules/ directory it has to have the following code within the module's PHP file:

$this->display(__FILE__, 'modulename.tpl'); 

For example, in the blockadvertising module folder, we have blockadvertising.tpl and blockadvertising.php.

In the blockadvertising.php there is a line as follows:

$this->display(__FILE__, 'blockadvertising.tpl');

You will need to work on the PHP file of each module if you want it to use the same system.

Otherwise you will have to upload the modules within the default modules folder.

This is useful to know as some third party modules...