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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

Making a module multistore-compliant

As you may have seen how multistore worked in the BO controllers, PrestaShop can contain multiple shops, each shop can present some of the items of the catalog, and some categories can contain a separate inventory. A shop is a sub-member of a shop group, which enables us to share data with other shops.

The general idea if you use multistore features is that your database tables and entities must contain the id_shop and id_shop_group attributes, even if you are in localized tables. As you now know how to handle the Lang entities for your entities objects, you should be able to add the necessary shop attributes in the same way.

The necessary information about the multistore status, such as which shop and shop group are selected, is available via the multistore feature adapter. You can retrieve this service like this:

$multistoreFeature = $this->get('prestashop.adapter.feature.multistore');

And the shop context adapter is accessible...

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