(Solved) Using the models outside of PS

[doobdargent]

Hey there

I'm trying to create a custom administration panel for PrestaShop for my father (He wants only the trivial stuff).

 

Actually I'm just copy/pasting and adapting the current models to a MVC framework, and it's working fine. It takes a lot of time of course.

What I am worried about is future evolution. If in a future PS update, the DB scheme change, I would have to manually find and re-adapt my own models system.

 

I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to instantiate those classes? There is so many dependencies!

 

Any hint is deeply appreciated.

Cheers,

Bastien.

[El Patron]

why not just create a new permission group with just the back office stuff your father needs. then you can easily add/delete area's he needs/doesn't need. the beauty is then you don't need to change anything in PS...

 

back office-->empolyees-->profiles

add a new profile

 

then

back office-->employees-->permissions

select the profile you just added

now set the area's that you want your father to work with

[doobdargent]

Thnaks for your reply elpatron.

 

I'm not doing this because my friend designed a really awesome and user-friendly UI that is completely different. (Usage of drag&drop everywhere)

 

I'll take a look in the web to see if it's possible to create themes for the administration, I didn't even check that

[doobdargent]

Sometimes I forget the basics... Just by looking in the admin/index.php I found the answer.

In order to have access to all PrestaShop classes, we only need to require the config file.

 

<?php
define('_PS_ADMIN_DIR_', getcwd());
require(dirname(__FILE__).'/../config/config.inc.php'); // From any folder in PrestaShop dir
echo Configuration::get('PS_WEIGHT_UNIT'); // kg

 

Jesus I just saved 2 weeks of worthless effort !