Preface

The data model–how and where data is stored

The core classes – how the MVC works

Chapter 2: The Configuration and Initialization of PrestaShop

The legacy FO controller initialization

The legacy BO and Symfony admin controller initialization

The most important constants to set as a developer

The Dispatcher class

Chapter 3: The Front Office

Discovering how an FO controller works

Using the model

Using the views from the theme

Chapter 4: The Back Office

Discovering how a legacy-based BO controller works

The most useful tools for recurrent HTML generation: the Helper classes

Discovering how a migrated Symfony-based BO controller works

Using the CQRS design pattern

Generating table views by using Grid components

Chapter 5: The Hooks

Quick presentation of a hook

Discovering the hook ObjectModel child object

Presenting the two types of hook

Registering/unregistering a module to a hook and implementing a module’s behavior on a hook execution

Executing a hook

Chapter 6: The Themes

Understanding what a theme is and its structure

The FO Smarty templates

The most used Smarty constants

The CSS/JS assets

Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules

Chapter 7: What Are Modules? Let’s Create a Hello World Module

Creating our first hello world module

Defining a module

Installing our first module

Chapter 8: A Reinsurance Block Module

Creating the module’s initial structure

Adding a Smarty template view

Adding CSS styles to our module

Chapter 9: A Customer Callback Request Module

Creating the module’s initial structure

Managing the model the modern way

Creating a modern BO controller containing a grid to list all the requests

Adding the BO controller to the BO menu

Creating a configuration page for our module and adding a Symfony form

Chapter 10: Category Extension Module

Presenting the most useful hooks to extend a form and handle it

Creating the module’s initial structure

Creating the entities

Extending the Category form in creation mode

Improving the Category form in edition mode

Handling the extended form submission

Handling Category deletion

Displaying saved content on the FO Category page

Chapter 11: A Simple Blogging Module

Designing the general architecture of this module

Creating entities and relationships, repositories, and database tables

Creating commands, queries, and data transfer objects

Creating BO controllers and routes

Adding forms for creating and editing entities

Creating Grids

Handling deletions

Creating the FO controllers and displaying the data

Chapter 12: A Cash Payment Module

Creating our module structure

Creating the payment validation controller

Chapter 13: A Drive Delivery Module

Defining a PrestaShop Carrier module

Creating our module structure

Creating a WHRelayCart entity to save our chosen relay points

Creating a Carrier programmatically

Displaying the relay pickup points list during the checkout

Handling a relay pickup point choice via an Ajax FO controller

Displaying the pickup point on the order view BO controller

Creating a Widget to promote our module anywhere on the FO

Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme

Chapter 14: How to Create a Child Theme

Discovering what a child theme is

Creating a child theme structure

Installing and testing our child theme example

Chapter 15: Overriding Some Templates

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

Chapter 16: Assets Compiling with Webpack

Understanding what Webpack does and its prerequisites

Discovering the structure of a Webpack config file

Building assets with Webpack