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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635962

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Prestashop

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Louis Authie

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

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

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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.