[SOLVED] who can explain me this line of code ?

[jemmeli]

hello

 

when i was surfing one of free modules that i download it i found the following line of code in the module file but i did'nt understand what it does exectlly :

 

the line :

 

if(get_class($this->context->controller)=="IndexController")

 

thank you in advance for the help :

Edited July 30, 2013 by jemmeli (see edit history)

[vekia]

prestashop is based on MVC (model - view - controller)

 

the code you pasted is related to the CONTROLLER

 

each controller is a PHP Class

 

What does it mean?

if(get_class($this->context->controller)=="IndexController")

this code means:

 

if $this->context->controller is "indexController" then do something.

 

 

what you want to achieve exactly?

[jemmeli]

thank you for the explanation :

 

plz I have another line of code i did'nt found any explanition on the net :

 

public function renderForm() {
	if (!($obj = $this->loadObject(true)))
		return;

 

i want to ask what is the role of the loadObject in the renderForm methode inside a controller ?

I did'nt found any expalnation about the loadObject in the prestashop 1.5 docs

 

and thank you in advance

Edited June 18, 2013 by jemmeli (see edit history)

[vekia]

loadObject function loads object specification that you've got defined in the object definition, then displays form with fields based on object definition

[jemmeli]

as I understand the

$definition

object definied in the model by:

 

public static $definition = array(
 //some code
);

 

will be loaded in the controller by the loadobject method

[vekia]

that's right

[jemmeli]

thank you for the explanation , i did not found like this informations in the docs of prestashop , for example the loadobject is not mentionned in the docs prestashop 1.5 , as many other objects in prestashop is not mentioned in docs !!!!

Edited June 20, 2013 by jemmeli (see edit history)