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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

By : Louis Authie
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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

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By: Louis Authie
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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After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code.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)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works
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Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works
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Chapter 1: Quick Overview of PrestaShop
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Chapter 1: Quick Overview of PrestaShop
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Technical requirements
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The data model–how and where data is stored
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The core classes – how the MVC works
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Summary
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Chapter 2: The Configuration and Initialization of PrestaShop
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Chapter 2: The Configuration and Initialization of PrestaShop
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Technical requirements
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The legacy FO controller initialization
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The legacy BO and Symfony admin controller initialization
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The most important constants to set as a developer
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The Dispatcher class
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Summary
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Chapter 3: The Front Office
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Chapter 3: The Front Office
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Technical requirements
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Discovering how an FO controller works
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Using the model
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Using the views from the theme
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Summary
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Chapter 4: The Back Office
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Chapter 4: The Back Office
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Technical requirements
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Discovering how a legacy-based BO controller works
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The most useful tools for recurrent HTML generation: the Helper classes
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Discovering how a migrated Symfony-based BO controller works
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Using the CQRS design pattern
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Generating table views by using Grid components
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Summary
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Chapter 5: The Hooks
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Chapter 5: The Hooks
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Technical requirements
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Quick presentation of a hook
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Discovering the hook ObjectModel child object
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Presenting the two types of hook
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Registering/unregistering a module to a hook and implementing a module’s behavior on a hook execution
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Executing a hook
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Summary
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Chapter 6: The Themes
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Chapter 6: The Themes
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Technical requirements
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Understanding what a theme is and its structure
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The FO Smarty templates
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The most used Smarty constants
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The CSS/JS assets
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Summary
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Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules
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Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules
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Chapter 7: What Are Modules? Let’s Create a Hello World Module
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Chapter 7: What Are Modules? Let’s Create a Hello World Module
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Technical requirements
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Defining a module
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Creating our first hello world module
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Installing our first module
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Summary
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Chapter 8: A Reinsurance Block Module
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Chapter 8: A Reinsurance Block Module
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Technical requirements
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Defining our module design
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Creating the module’s initial structure
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Adding a Smarty template view
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Adding CSS styles to our module
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Testing our module
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Chapter 9: A Customer Callback Request Module
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Chapter 9: A Customer Callback Request Module
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Technical requirements
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Defining our module design
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Creating the module’s initial structure
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Managing the model the modern way
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Creating a modern BO controller containing a grid to list all the requests
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Adding the BO controller to the BO menu
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Creating a configuration page for our module and adding a Symfony form
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Chapter 10: Category Extension Module
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Chapter 10: Category Extension Module
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Technical requirements
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Presenting the most useful hooks to extend a form and handle it
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Defining our module design
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Creating the module’s initial structure
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Creating the entities
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Extending the Category form in creation mode
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Improving the Category form in edition mode
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Handling the extended form submission
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Handling Category deletion
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Displaying saved content on the FO Category page
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Testing our module
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Summary
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Chapter 11: A Simple Blogging Module
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Chapter 11: A Simple Blogging Module
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Technical requirements
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Defining our module design
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Designing the general architecture of this module
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Creating entities and relationships, repositories, and database tables
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Creating commands, queries, and data transfer objects
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Creating BO controllers and routes
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Adding forms for creating and editing entities
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Creating Grids
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Handling deletions
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Creating the FO controllers and displaying the data
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Summary
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Chapter 12: A Cash Payment Module
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Chapter 12: A Cash Payment Module
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Technical requirements
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Defining our module design
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Creating our module structure
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Creating the payment validation controller
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Testing our module
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Chapter 13: A Drive Delivery Module
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Chapter 13: A Drive Delivery Module
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Technical requirements
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Defining our module design
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Defining a PrestaShop Carrier module
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Creating our module structure
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Creating a WHRelayCart entity to save our chosen relay points
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Creating a Carrier programmatically
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Displaying the relay pickup points list during the checkout
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Handling a relay pickup point choice via an Ajax FO controller
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Displaying the pickup point on the order view BO controller
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Creating a Widget to promote our module anywhere on the FO
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Testing our module
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Summary
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Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme
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Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme
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Chapter 14: How to Create a Child Theme
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Chapter 14: How to Create a Child Theme
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Technical requirements
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Discovering what a child theme is
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Creating a child theme structure
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Installing and testing our child theme example
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Summary
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Chapter 15: Overriding Some Templates
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Chapter 15: Overriding Some Templates
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Technical requirements
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Overriding a module template from a (child) theme
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Overriding a module CSS asset from a (child) theme
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Overriding a module JavaScript asset from a (child) theme
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Summary
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Chapter 16: Assets Compiling with Webpack
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Chapter 16: Assets Compiling with Webpack
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Technical requirements
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Understanding what Webpack does and its prerequisites
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Discovering the structure of a Webpack config file
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Building assets with Webpack
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Summary
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Index
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Index
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Appendix – Module Upgrade, The Hooks Discovery Tool, and Multi-Store Functions
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Getting the hook parameters quickly
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Making a module multistore-compliant
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Upgrading a module

The FO Smarty templates

We saw in Chapter 3, The Front Office, that the initContent() method of the front controllers was fetching the Smarty template of the active theme, with this code in the CMS FO controller example:

$this->setTemplate(
    'cms/page',
    ['entity' => 'cms', 'id' => $this->cms->id]
);

In this example, the code will fetch the /themes/classic/templates/cms/page.tpl file to generate the HTML view for the CMS page FO controller.

Remember that if you are not familiar with Smarty, you can go to the official documentation website via this URL: https://www.smarty.net/documentation.

Let’s study the code of this template example:

{extends file='page.tpl'}

This line tells Smarty that this view is a child of the /themes/classic/templates/page.tpl file (the parent view). The following lines in this child template override the parent view:

{block...
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