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PrestaShop Module Development

You're reading from   PrestaShop Module Development Develop and customize powerful modules for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280254
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabien Serny Fabien Serny
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating a New Module FREE CHAPTER 2. Hooks 3. Using Context and its Methods 4. Building Module Updates 5. Front Controllers, Object Models, and Overrides 6. Admin Controllers and Hooks 7. The Carrier Module 8. The Payment Module 9. Multistore 10. Security and Performance A. Native Hooks Index

Creating new carriers


Now that we have a working configuration form, we will have to create carriers. In our case, we will create two carriers, one with a classic delivery option and one with relay points.

If you don't know how a carrier works in PrestaShop, I first invite you to create some carriers manually in your administration panel. This will help you understand the method described in the upcoming code.

We will first add the install method in our module's main class, in which we will call a method named installCarriers:

public function install()
{
  if (!parent::install())
    return false;
  if (!$this->installCarriers())
    return false;
  return true;
}

Unfortunately, there is no native method to create carriers, even in the CarrierModule class. So, we will have to create the method ourselves. We will build it step by step:

  1. First, create the installCarriers method:

    public function installCarriers()
    {
    }
  2. Next, in this new function, retrieve the ID of the default language:

    $id_lang_default...
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