Advanced Prestashop module developer guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Environment setup

Lecture 2: Fundamentals of Prestashop development

Lecture 3: Prestashop module the big picture

Lecture 4: Coding standars

Chapter 2: Basic module

Lecture 1: Creating first module

Lecture 2: Install & uninstall methods

Lecture 3: The configuration object

Lecture 4: Hooks introduction

Lecture 5: Legacy hooks

Lecture 6: Legacy hook custom template

Lecture 7: Pass dynamic variable to smarty template

Lecture 8: The widget API

Lecture 9: Enable widget support for the module

Lecture 10: getWidgetVariables method

Lecture 11: Module configuration page

Lecture 12: TPL for the configuration page

Lecture 13: Handle form submission from a TPL file

Lecture 14: Using helperForm

Lecture 15: HelperForm handle submission

Chapter 3: Controllers

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 4: Front controller

Lecture 1: Create front controller

Lecture 2: InitContent method

Lecture 3: PostProcess method

Lecture 4: Generate front module link

Lecture 5: HookModuleRoutes to create a custom route

Chapter 5: Admin controller

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create admin controller

Lecture 3: The active record implementation in Prestashop

Lecture 4: Setup the controller to use the ObjectModel

Lecture 5: Create the object model class ( Comment.class.php )

Lecture 6: Using the ObjectModel class within an admin controller

Lecture 7: The edit page

Lecture 8: The view page

Lecture 9: Fetch data using DbQuery

Lecture 10: Use TPL file instead of helpers for the admin controller

Chapter 6: Moden controller

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create a modern controller

Lecture 3: Use a TWIG template

Lecture 4: TWIG template extending

Lecture 5: Pass dynamic variable to TWIG template

Lecture 6: Forms

Lecture 7: Form class

Lecture 8: Handle form submission

Lecture 9: Entites

Lecture 10: Persist entity to the database

Lecture 11: Handle entity based form's and store data to the database

Lecture 12: Flash messages

Lecture 13: Listing data

Lecture 14: Updating data

Chapter 7: Payment module

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Anatomy of a payment module

Lecture 3: Create an offline payment module

Lecture 4: The validation controller

Lecture 5: Checkout confirmation message

Lecture 6: Sending confirmation email after order placement