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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

You're reading from   Practical Module development for Prestashop 8 Create modern, customizable, and dynamic online stores using efficient modules

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635962
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works
2. Chapter 1: Quick Overview of PrestaShop FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Configuration and Initialization of PrestaShop 4. Chapter 3: The Front Office 5. Chapter 4: The Back Office 6. Chapter 5: The Hooks 7. Chapter 6: The Themes 8. Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules
9. Chapter 7: What Are Modules? Let’s Create a Hello World Module 10. Chapter 8: A Reinsurance Block Module 11. Chapter 9: A Customer Callback Request Module 12. Chapter 10: Category Extension Module 13. Chapter 11: A Simple Blogging Module 14. Chapter 12: A Cash Payment Module 15. Chapter 13: A Drive Delivery Module 16. Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme
17. Chapter 14: How to Create a Child Theme 18. Chapter 15: Overriding Some Templates 19. Chapter 16: Assets Compiling with Webpack 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – Module Upgrade, The Hooks Discovery Tool, and Multi-Store Functions

Discovering the hook ObjectModel child object

Hooks are referenced in the database and are represented in the core via the Hook class defined in the /classes/Hook.php file.

The fields describing a hook in the prefix_hook table are as follows:

  • The name column is used in the code as the string identifying the hook; it must be unique.
  • The title column is the short text describing the hook.
  • The description column is the longer text to define what the hook does.
  • The position column is a Boolean always equal to true. It is not used anymore but stays in the code.
  • The active column is a Boolean equal to false if the hook is not active, and equal to true if the hook is active.

As hook names can become long and hard to remember, a prefix_hook_alias table enables you to add an alias string to a hook in a one-to-one relationship between a hook and an alias.

Also, hooks have a many-to-many relationship with the Module object. This relationship is materialized...

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