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PrestaShop Module Development

By : Fabien Serny
Book Image

PrestaShop Module Development

By: Fabien Serny

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop Module Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the database class to save comments


We will now register the comment and grade filled in by the visitor in the database. First, we will create a table in our database:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ps_mymod_comment (id_mymod_comment int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, id_product` int(11) NOT NULL, grade tinyint(1) NOT NULL, comment text NOT NULL,date_add datetime NOT NULL,PRIMARY KEY (id_mymod_comment)) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

As you can see, the table contains five fields: the line identifier (in auto-increment), the product identifier, the grade, the comment, and the date of the comment.

Note

In PrestaShop, the naming conventions for the database field are:

  • Name your identifier field with the id_ prefix followed by the name of the table without the ps_ prefix

  • Name your date with the date_ prefix, such as date_comment

Create your table with your SQL admin tool (mine is phpMyAdmin; yeah, I know, I'm a bit old school). Beware! If you chose a different prefix than ps_...