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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After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code.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

Summary

In this chapter, we have created a large module containing the most used components: BO Grids, filtered or not, Forms in creation and edition mode, and all the data management processing via the CQRS design pattern.

Finally, we saw how the created data can be displayed with the legacy module FO controller that extends the FrontController and Controller classes.

The huge amount of information provided for this module obliged us to focus on the new knowledge and the most important information. That’s why we sometimes jumped from one component to another. Remember that the GitHub repository contains the full resulting module if you need to get all the complete files, don’t hesitate and go through it anytime.

We now know most of what a developer needs to create standard PrestaShop modules. In the next chapter, we will discover the Payment modules that enable us to add new payment solutions to our shop.