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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After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code.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 discovered that a module is a class defined in the /modules/ folder following certain rules on naming.

This class has to extend the Module class or one of its children classes. Every Module class must implement a __construct() method to set some required attributes, provide install() and uninstall() functions, and if the module registers with some Hooks, then it must implement the hookNameOfTheHook($params) function with NameOfTheHook replaced by the real hook name.

We also saw how to add a logo to our module listing, secure the folder, install/uninstall our module in practice, and finally tested it.

In the next chapter, we will create another module, displaying reinsurance blocks on the FO. This will be a nice way to further improve our knowledge of modules!