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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

Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

3.5 (2)
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After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code.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)
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Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works
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Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules
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Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme
Appendix – Module Upgrade, The Hooks Discovery Tool, and Multi-Store Functions

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

The Helper classes are defined in the /classes/helper/ folder and enable us to generate useful recurrent BO views, such as edition forms with HelperForm, or entity elements listing tables with HelperList. Other Helper classes exist, such as HelperCalendar, HelperImageUploader, HelperKpi, HelperKpiRow, HelperOptions, and so on, but we won’t cover all of them because the aim of this book is to show you the way to understand how everything is articulated and to be able to create your own modules following those design patterns.

The parent class for all the Helper objects is defined in the /classes/helper/Helper.php file by the HelperCore object. The final aim will be to use the generate() method to return the HTML content requested.

Generating an edition form with HelperForm

The HelperForm object is a child object of Helper, and it is used to generate an HTML form by calling its generateForm($fields_form...

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