April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 37m
English
Having set up PrestaShop (please see https://devdocs.prestashop-project.org/1.7/basics/installation/, if you haven’t) and used it, you may know the two main parts of it. As with other content management systems (CMSs) such as WordPress, there’s a public part unrestricted and visible by any visitor of your website named the Front Office (FO), and there’s a restricted part, only visible by employees with email and password authentication, called the Back Office (BO).
In this chapter, we will explain quickly how everything is designed, from the database to the core structure of the FO and the BO, and how they are linked.
In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics: