Summary
In this chapter, we saw that all the old legacy-based BO pages are generated by controllers located in the /controllers/front/ folder. All those old BO controllers are child classes of the AdminController class defined in the /classes/controller/AdminController.php file. AdminController is a child of the Controller class defined in the /classes/controller/Controller.php file.
AdminController prepares all the data for the setup of the frame of the back office. All the AdminController child classes managing the old BO views rely on useful classes extending the Helper class to generate recurrent HTML views such as editing forms or list tables with HelperForm or HelperList.
Since v1.7 of PrestaShop, the migration from the old legacy-based controllers to the Symfony modern controllers has been ongoing. New Symfony BO controllers extend the FrameworkBundleAdminController class. All Symfony controllers now benefit from the possibilities offered by the Symfony framework. The...
