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PrestaShop Module Development

You're reading from  PrestaShop Module Development

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280254
Pages 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Fabien Serny Fabien Serny
Profile icon Fabien Serny

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

PrestaShop Module Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating a New Module 2. Hooks 3. Using Context and its Methods 4. Building Module Updates 5. Front Controllers, Object Models, and Overrides 6. Admin Controllers and Hooks 7. The Carrier Module 8. The Payment Module 9. Multistore 10. Security and Performance Native Hooks Index

Upgrading your module


This section is optional unless you want to distribute your module (that is, give or sell). However, if you skip this part, be sure to use the module attached with this chapter, instead of your own, before going to the next chapter.

This section is only for PrestaShop 1.5 and newer (module upgrade methods did not exist in PrestaShop 1.4).

Why use an update method? When you improve one of your modules, there may be times you will need to add a SQL table, alter existing ones, or even make specific configuration actions. In most cases, the merchant won't be able to make the updates manually and you can't ask them to uninstall/reinstall the module because, in our case, it means that all the comments posted will be deleted.

Let's add some fields (firstname, lastname, and e-mail address) to the comment form on the product pages. We will not only need to update the PHP and template files, but also alter the mymod_comment SQL table.

First of all, in mymodcomments.php, change the...

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