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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

Adding a Smarty template view

Even if we could directly return the raw HTML code to display in the hookDisplayFooterBefore($params) function, we will do this by respecting the model-view-controller (MVC) concept. We will now use Smarty to generate the HTML view. First, we need to create a Smarty template that will be fetched by the module to return the right HTML output. We will now create a /modules/whreinsurance/views/templates/hook/whreinsurance.tpl file containing the HTML code of the module output. As we saw before, all the Smarty templates used inside the display hook calls must be stored inside the /modules/whreinsurance/views/templates/hook/ folder. If you plan to have multiple display hook calls, you can call the .tpl file by the name of the hook calling. If you plan to use only one display hook, it is recommended by the PrestaShop developer documentation to call the .tpl file by the technical name of the module. It is not mandatory; it is just good practice.

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