Issue with the "mymodule" example from the developer guide

[morganmcreynolds]

Hi,

 

PrestaShop newbie here, so please be gentle

 

I am beginning (literally) to learn about PrestaShop development.  I have copied the mymodule.php example from the PrestaShop Developers Guide and it is not working for me.  I am testing it in both a local 1.6.0.5 PS instance and a 1.6.0.14 PS instance (hosted remotely).  The error message is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS.

 

I am certain that it is a relatively trivial issue, but I am unable to figure it it out.  Any help would be much appreciated.  The code (which I am copying verbatim from the Developer Guide) is listed below:

 

<?php

if (!defined('_PS_VERSION_'))

  exit;

 

class MyModule extends Module

{

  public function __construct()

  {

    $this->name = 'mymodule';

    $this->tab = 'front_office_features';

    $this->version = '1.0.0';

    $this->author = 'Firstname Lastname';

    $this->need_instance = 0;

    $this->ps_versions_compliancy = array('min' => '1.6', 'max' => _PS_VERSION_); 

    $this->bootstrap = true;

 

    parent::__construct();

 

    $this->displayName = $this->l('My module');

    $this->description = $this->l('Description of my module.');

 

    $this->confirmUninstall = $this->l('Are you sure you want to uninstall?');

 

    if (!Configuration::get('MYMODULE_NAME'))      

      $this->warning = $this->l('No name provided');

  }

}

[morganmcreynolds]

Hi,

 

Following my own initial post..

 

If you double click the sample code from the doc.prestashop site and paste it in (as I did originally), it appears that cause some sort of character issues.  I didn't get to the bottom of it exactly, but cut/paste of certain sections and manually typing the beginning and end seemed to move it past one issue.

 

With that silliness out of the way, it appears to work fine.

[PascalVG]

Hi morgan.

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Indeed, you should save the files in utf-8 encoding...

 

Another tip. You can use a website like:

http://phpcodechecker.com/

 

to check your code on most basic syntax errors. This sometimes may make life easier :-)

 

Hope this helps,

pascal.