PrestaShop Module Development

PrestaShop Module Development

By : Serny

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PrestaShop Module Development

By: Serny

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Overview of this book

If you are a developer who is new to PrestaShop and wants to get a good foundation in development on the PrestaShop framework, this book is for you. It's assumed that you will have some experience with PHP5, jQuery, and HTML/CSS (no need to be an expert on it).

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Free Chapter

1. Creating a New Module

First steps

Adding the module configuration

Making a simple configuration form

Summary

2. Hooks

Registering our module on hooks

Changing the position of your module on a hook

Using hooks to display templates

Using the database class to save comments

Summary

3. Using Context and its Methods

Looking at the Context object

Using the translate method

Adding CSS and JS in your module

Checking compatibilities and dependencies

Summary

4. Building Module Updates

Creating a database table on module installation

Deleting a table on uninstallation

Upgrading your module

Updating the module code

Adding a callback to options

Summary

5. Front Controllers, Object Models, and Overrides

Using front controllers to create a new page

Installing overrides with modules

Using object models to create cleaner code

Using HelperForm to make a scalable form

Cleaning your code using the hook's controller

Summary

6. Admin Controllers and Hooks

Adding an admin controller

Using back office hooks

Summary

7. The Carrier Module

First step to create a carrier module

Using web services

Creating new carriers

Using web services on shipping cost calculation

Handling carrier update

Displaying relay points

Associating the chosen relay point with the cart

Displaying the customer's choice in the back office

Summary

8. The Payment Module

Creating a payment module

Creating the payment controller

Checking the currency

Validating a cart into an order

Displaying information on the order confirmation page

Creating your own order state

Associating an e-mail with an order state

Working with a third-party API

Summary

9. Multistore

Configuring the multistore feature on your PrestaShop

Updating the MySQL table of the module

Updating the module code

Using the Configuration class with multistore

Summary

10. Security and Performance

Securing your module

Searching for malicious code in modules

Performance and optimization

Summary

A. Native Hooks

The list of all the dynamic hooks

Index

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Performance and optimization

The following sections are only recommendations.

Using Combine, Compress, and Cache

In your administration panel, you can enable an option named Combine, Compress, and Cache (CCC) by navigating to Advanced Parameters | Performance:

If you set all parameters to YES, this option will perform five actions:

It will group all CSS files in one file, remove all useless spaces and return lines, and cache it (this will only perfectly work if you used the Tools::addCss method in your module to include the CSS files)
It will group all JS files in one file, rename variables and functions with shorter names, remove all useless spaces and return lines, and cache it (this will only perfectly work if you used the Tools::addJs method in your module to include the JS files)
Minify the HTML code by removing useless spaces and return lines
Compress inline JavaScript in HTML
Optimize Apache with .htaccess directives (enable mod_expires and deflate Apache extensions)

PrestaShop Module Development

By : Serny

PrestaShop Module Development

By: Serny

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