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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

Registering/unregistering a module to a hook and implementing a module’s behavior on a hook execution

Even if we will study deeply the modules’ definitions later in this book, please consider that a module will be defined by a class extending the Module class defined in the /classes/module/Module.php file.

When we install our module in the PrestaShop BO UI, it runs the install() method of our Module class. And this is precisely where we want to register our module to the hooks. It can be done with the help of the registerHook($hook_name, $shop_list = null) method of the parent Module class, where $hook_name has to be the string name of the hook to register with, and $shop_list has to be the integer array of shop IDs in the case of a multistore.

For example, if we want to register to the displayTop hook (which enables us to display HTML content at the top of our FO pages in the header), we will simply define our install method as follows:

public function install...
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