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After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code.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

Overriding Some Templates

Although we know how to create a child theme to extend an existing one, we would love to customize some of the installed modules’ templates or assets to make them look like the rest of our child theme. As you can imagine, the best practice for this is certainly not to directly modify the modules’ templates or assets in the module directories. We will learn, in this chapter, the most efficient and clean way to customize the assets and templates.

Let’s follow these steps to discover the best practices for module template/asset overriding from a theme:

  • Overriding a module template from a (child) theme
  • Overriding a module CSS asset from a (child) theme
  • Overriding a module JavaScript asset from a (child) theme

By the end of this chapter, we will know how to override any module template or asset in a clean and efficient way, so as to keep the module updatable and without having any impact on other themes.