Back Office Module Documentation

[mheath5440]

Hi,

 

I'm writing a BO module to export orders in a particular HTML format. I managed to create the module and get it to appear on the tabs and display a piece of text by using display().

 

Is there any documentation on creating BO modules and using the superclass methods such as displayForm()? If I try and call the super displayForm() from within my own displayForm() method nothing happens:

 

 

<?php

 

include_once( PS_ADMIN_DIR.'/../classes/AdminTab.php');

 

class AdminOrderExport extends AdminTab{

 

public function __construct(){

$this->table = 'order';

$this->className = 'OrderExport';

 

parent::__construct();

}

 

public function displayForm(){

parent::displayForm();

}

 

public function display(){

echo '<div>Test</div>';

$this->displayForm();

 

}

}

 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[El Patron]

this may help http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS14/Creating+a+PrestaShop+module

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi mheath,

You can find our guide to developing a PrestaShop module here.

 

I hope this helps.

 

-Mike

[mheath5440]

Thanks, I've been through the documents...what they are lacking is how specific features of back office modules work such as:

 

- once the tab has been created with the display() method, how do you call methods from your form submits? What files/classes should be used? Does it call back to the same class?

 

Really need a basis of how the architecture for back office modules work and I can't find anything.

[Mike Kranzler]

Thanks, I've been through the documents...what they are lacking is how specific features of back office modules work such as:

 

- once the tab has been created with the display() method, how do you call methods from your form submits? What files/classes should be used? Does it call back to the same class?

 

Really need a basis of how the architecture for back office modules work and I can't find anything.

 

In that case, you may want to take a look at our Physical Data Model.

 

-Mike

[aaragus]

That is very useful Mike, but for example: how can we change what goes into the message from the order? (I am assuming that is the email that goes out to the client). I can see in the database what can be changed, or associate another table to that but not sure where I we can inject or caputre a core action.

Edited August 3, 2012 by aaragus (see edit history)