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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

A Reinsurance Block Module

We got our first contact with the PrestaShop modules by creating a simple Hello World! module on the index. We know how to set the main variables and how to deal with the install and uninstall process by registering to hooks. Let’s now go a little bit further by applying our knowledge to a new reinsurance module.

On many websites, merchants need to display information that reinsures customers to boost their rate of conversion. It can be very simple but powerful for online sales. This new example will enable us to learn how to code our module view in a separate Smarty template file and add some clean CSS styles.

The following process will lead us to an efficient working reinsurance block module:

  • Defining our module design
  • Creating the module’s initial structure
  • Adding a Smarty template view
  • Adding CSS styles to our module
  • Testing our module

By the end of this chapter, we will have mastered a simple module...

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