Practical Module Development for Prestashop 8

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works

1

Quick Overview of PrestaShop

Technical requirements

The data model–how and where data is stored

Browsing the data

Reverse engineering the contact entity

Manipulating data by extending the ObjectModel class

Using the Db class

The core classes – how the MVC works

Presenting the legacy core MVC pattern

Discovering the core migration

Summary

2

The Configuration and Initialization of PrestaShop

Technical requirements

The legacy FO controller initialization

Initializing a Category FO controller

The legacy BO and Symfony admin controller initialization

The legacy BO controller initialization

The Symfony BO controller initialization

The most important constants ...