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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

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After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code.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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Quick Overview of the System, explores the structure of PrestaShop.

Chapter 2, Configuration and Initialization of PrestaShop, explains the initialization process of PrestaShop and how to configure it.

Chapter 3, The Front Office, shows how front office pages are generated in PrestaShop.

Chapter 4, The Back Office, shows how Symfony-based and legacy-based back office pages are processed.

Chapter 5, The Hooks, explains what Hooks are, and why they are so important for PrestaShop module developers.

Chapter 6, The Themes, covers the structure of a theme.

Chapter 7, What Are Modules? Let’s Create a Hello World Module, shows you how to create your first simple module.

Chapter 8, A Reinsurance Block Module, shows you how to create a module to increase the rate of conversion for your shop.

Chapter 9, A Customer Callback Request Module, shows you how to create a modern module using Symfony and find a way to get customer details to increase the rate of purchase.

Chapter 10, Category Extension Module, shows you how to create a category extension module to add fields to your category page in the back office and provide them to the front office.

Chapter 11, A Simple Blogging Module, shows you how to create a simple blog module with posts and post categories to apply all the most useful pieces of knowledge in module development.

Chapter 12, A Cash Payment Module, shows you how to create a payment module with its specificities.

Chapter 13, A Drive Delivery Module, shows you how to create a carrier module with a pickup relay point choice in the checkout process.

Chapter 14, How To Create a Child Theme, explains how to extend an existing theme by creating a child theme.

Chapter 15, Overriding Some Templates, teaches you how to override module templates and assets to make them fit in a theme graphical context.

Chapter 16, Assets Compiling with Webpack, offers a simple guide to use the Webpack bundler.