PrestaShop Developer Guide

PrestaShop Developer Guide, download free PDF tutorial

Prestashop is an Internet application dedicated to the creation of online shops; This is a free and open source application. It was in 2005 that Prestashop was created by 5 students of Epitech (School for computer science and new technologies), named phpOpenStore (POS) at the time. The tests were carried out by commercial sites which contributed to the drafting of the specifications.

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Table of contents

• Fundamentals
• Concepts
• PrestaShop's technical architecture
• Database schema
• What is a PrestaShop module
• Technical principles behind a module
• A list of PrestaShop hooks
• Homepage and general website items
• Search
• Carrier choice
• Payment
• Merchandise Returns
• Orders and order details
• Statistics
• Clients
• Creating a PrestaShop module
• Modules' operating principles
• Hooking a module
• Displaying content
• Using Smarty
• Module translation
• Creating the module's back-office tab, and its class
• PrestaShop official forum
• Troubleshooting
• PrestaShop Development