[Prestashop development] Lesson 1: How to create a New module for Prestashop?

In this post, Buy-addons team will take you how to create a new prestashop module. Our example is named buyaddonsexam module.

Step 1: Go to PRESTASHOP_ROOT\modules, create a new directory that is name_of_your_module. for our an example, we have created a directory: buyaddonsexam, now path to your module is PRESTASHOP_ROOT\modules\buyaddonsexam

Step 2: Create a PHP file that must be named name_of_your_module.php within PRESTASHOP_ROOT\modules\name_of_your_module. Now path to this PHP file is PRESTASHOP_ROOT\modules\name_of_your_module\name_of_your_module.php. The content of this file like our sample buyaddonsexam.php file.

Our sample PHP file: modules\buyaddonsexam\buyaddonsexam.php

You should download our sample PHP file for our prestashop module and modify it to your information.

buyaddonsexam.php.txt

Note: you must rename buyaddonsexam.php.txt filename to name_of_your_module.php and move it to PRESTASHOP_ROOT\modules\name_of_your_module after downloaded it.

Change information of this file to information of your module

class BuyaddonsExam: change to class name_of_your_module (not case sensitive)
add logo.png file into PRESTASHOP_ROOT\modules\name_of_your_module, this picture will be displayed in Prestashop backoffice.
$this->name = “buyaddonsexam”: change to $this->name = “name_of_your_module“
$this->tab = “front_office_features”: change front_office_features to other tab name that you want display your prestashop module at there in Prestashop Backoffice. View all tabs at here:

“Tab” name	Module section
administration	Administration
advertising_marketing	Advertising & Marketing
analytics_stats	Analytics & Stats
billing_invoicing	Billing & Invoices
checkout	Checkout
content_management	Content Management
dashboard	Dashboard
emailing	E-mailing
export	Export
front_office_features	Front Office Features
i18n_localization	I18n & Localization
market_place	Market Place
merchandizing	Merchandizing
migration_tools	Migration Tools
mobile	Mobile
others	Other Modules
payments_gateways	Payments & Gateways
payment_security	Payment Security
pricing_promotion	Pricing & Promotion
quick_bulk_update	Quick / Bulk update
search_filter	Search & Filter
seo	SEO
shipping_logistics	Shipping & Logistics
slideshows	Slideshows
smart_shopping	Smart Shopping
social_networks	Social Networks

$this->version = “1.0.0”: change 1.0.0 to version of your module. it started from 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1 -> 1.0.x -> 1.1.0…
$this->author = “buy-addons”: change buy-addons to your company name
$this->displayName, $this->description: change to your module. there text will display in Prestashop Backoffice > Modules

Step 3: Go to Prestashop Backoffice > Modules > Module Catalog (In Prestashop 1.7) or Prestashop Backoffice > Modules & Services (In Prestashop 1.6), find your prestashop module and install it.

Now you already created and installed successfully a prestashop module. you can learn more to develop module for Prestashop order to extend Prestashop’s functions for your website.

Our FULL demo for prestashop module: buyaddonsexam.zip

Read more our posts for Prestashop developer: https://buy-addons.com/blog/topics/prestashop/developement/