PrestaShop Module Development

Develop and customize powerful modules for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6

About This Book

• Create and customize PrestaShop modules quickly and easily
• Provide a strong foundation in module development for developers who are new to PrestaShop
• Explore the advanced features of PrestaShop with clear and practical instructions

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer who is new to PrestaShop and wants to get a good foundation in development on the PrestaShop framework, this book is for you. It’s assumed that you will have some experience with PHP5, jQuery, and HTML/CSS (no need to be an expert on it).

In Detail

The number of e-commerce websites has drastically increased in these past few years. Building your own web store is a complex and expensive task; that’s why open source solutions such as PrestaShop have become so successful in tackling this issue. The main interest with open source solutions is that you can easily add or edit features by creating modules.

This practical, hands-on guide provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises to help you understand how PrestaShop works, and also help you add and edit features.

Starting with the basics, this book takes you through complete module development in an effective manner. You will learn about module architecture, what a hook is, and how to use it to add functionalities to PrestaShop. You will also see how to build payment and carrier modules and make your module multistore-ready. Develop PrestaShop modules the right way and make them secure and compliant with different versions of PrestaShop.

Table of Contents

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