PrestaShop module development : develop and customize powerful modules for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6 / Fabien Serny ; cover image by Monirath Pontiac ; foreword by Bruno Leveque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serny, Fabien, author.

Leveque, Bruno, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Pontiac, Monirath, cover designer.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce.

Business enterprises--Computer networks.

Business enterprises.

Web site development.

Internet marketing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Develop and customize powerful modules for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Serny Fabien: Fabien Serny is a former core developer at PrestaShop. He has 10 years of experience in web development and e-commerce. He has worked for several big e-commerce companies in France, and then created his own company named 23Prod in late 2010. In 2014, along with two other former core developers from PrestaShop, he launched Froggy Commerce, a platform that sells simple and powerful modules for PrestaShop based on the needs of e-tailers. You can visit his websites http: //www. 23prod. com and http: //www. froggy-commerce. com.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Creating a New Module; First steps; Adding the module configuration; Making a simple configuration form; Summary; Chapter 2: Hooks; Registering our module on hooks; Changing the position of your module on a hook; Using hooks to display templates; Using the database class to save comments; Displaying comments; Triggering hooks; Adding a hook; The dynamic hooks; Summary; Chapter 3: Using Context and Its Methods; Looking at the Context; Using the translate method

Adding CSS and JS in your moduleChecking compatibilities and dependencies; The compatibility check; The dependency check; Summary; Chapter 4: Building Module Updates; Creating a database table on module installation; Deleting a table on uninstallation; Upgrading your module; Updating the module code; Adding a callback to options; Summary; Chapter 5: Front Controllers, Object Models, and Overrides; Using front controllers to create a new page; Creating the front controller; Maintaining compatibility with the Friendly URL option; Creating a small action dispatcher

Displaying the product name and commentsIncluding CSS and JS media in the controller; Adding a pagination system; Creating routes for a module's controller; Installing overrides with modules; Creating the override class; Editing the template file to display grades on products list; Creating a new method in a native class; Using object models to create cleaner code; Creating the ObjectModel class; Using the ObjectModel in our module; Placing all the database requests in our ObjectModel; Using HelperForm to make a scalable form; Cleaning your code using the hook's controller; Summary

Chapter 6: Admin Controllers and HooksAdding an admin controller; Adding and installing a new tab to your admin panel; Uninstalling the tab when the module is uninstalled; Listing comments in your admin controller; Improving the list view; Adding actions on the list view; Creating your own view template; Configuring your form view; Using back office hooks; Attaching your module to a product hook; Displaying comments in a product hook; Displaying comments associated with a customer; Making links between admin sections; Summary; Chapter 7: The Carrier Module

First step to create a carrier moduleUsing web services; API description; Module configuration; Creating new carriers; Using web services on shipping cost calculation; Handling carrier update; Displaying relay points; Associating the chosen relay point with the cart; Displaying the customer's choice in the back office; Summary; Chapter 8: The Payment Module; Creating a payment module; Creating the payment controller; Checking the currency; Validating a cart into an order; Displaying information on the order confirmation page; Creating your own order state

Associating an e-mail with an order state

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783280261

1783280263

OCLC:

897934137