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PrestaShop Module Development

You're reading from  PrestaShop Module Development

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher
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

Using web services on shipping cost calculation


In order to keep the code clear in the module's main class, we will create a controller for shipping cost calculation:

public function getOrderShippingCost($params, $shipping_cost)
{
  $controller = $this->getHookController('getOrderShippingCost');
  return $controller->run($params, $shipping_cost);
}

As you can see, we've passed the two parameters available in the method to the controller. The two parameters are:

  • $params: In this case (the getOrderShippingCost function), $params is in fact the Cart object

  • $shipping_cost: This parameter corresponds to the shipping cost calculated by PrestaShop, which is the addition of the shipping handling fee (if the shipping_handling parameter of the carrier has been set to true, which is the case) and the price range / weight range cost (if the need_range parameter has been set to true, which is the case too)

    Note

    At this state, except if you set the shipping handling fee in the administration panel,...

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