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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

Installing our first module

Our module is ready to be installed! It contains our module class, the logo, and the index.php file. Let’s log in to our BO and click on the Improve section in the navigation menu, then Modules | Module Manager. You should see a listing of modules on the screen. If you scroll to the Design & Navigation subsection (because we defined the $tab attribute variable as front_office_features), you should get the following screen:

Figure 7.1 – The Module manager listing

Figure 7.1 – The Module manager listing

As the third entry, we see our Hello World module. TaS da!!! Well done! You should be able to see all the different attribute values you set in the class.

Please click on the Install button, which will execute the install function of our module class. It will show a success message. Then test the module by visiting the FO index URL of your shop. If you scroll to the end of the body part, you should find your module output generated via the hookDisplayHome...

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