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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

By : Louis AUTHIE
Book Image

Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

By: Louis AUTHIE

Overview of this book

After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code. This migration brought about significant changes for developers, from routine maintenance to module development. Practical Module Development for PrestaShop 8 is curated to help you explore the system architecture, including migrated and non-migrated controllers, with a concise data structure overview. You’ll understand how hooks enable module customization and optimize the CMS. Through the creation of seven modules, you’ll learn about the structure of modules, hook registration, the creation of front-office controllers, and Symfony back-office controllers. By using Doctrine entities, services, CQRS, grids, and forms, you’ll be guided through the creation of standard, payment and carrier modules. Additionally, you'll customize and override themes to achieve your desired e-commerce store look. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to provide modern solutions with PrestaShop that meet client requirements.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works
8
Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules
16
Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme
Appendix – Module Upgrade, The Hooks Discovery Tool, and Multi-Store Functions

A Simple Blogging Module

With all the previous modules’ examples provided by the previous chapters, we know how to create many of the features offered by PrestaShop’s new core. In this chapter, we will create a simple blogging module, presenting simple blog posts regrouped and presented by categories. It will be a good means for us to apply all the previous knowledge and discover how to easily create legacy front office (FO) controllers.

As you have already seen most of the components we will use there, we will try to put the accent on the general workflow instead of the core programming. As always, you will be able to find all the files of this module in the GitHub public repo provided with this book.

We will go through the following steps to create our module:

  • Defining our module design
  • Designing the general architecture of this module
  • Creating the entities and the relationships, the repositories, and the database tables
  • Creating commands,...