Duplicating A Module

[mbreezy]

First off, I'm a complete noob at developing for PS.  I'm proficient in php, css, etc, but have never done so in PS.

 

I'd like to modify the "featured products on homepage" module, but I need to download the base files in order to do so.  Is there a way to get a copy of this?  It was contained in the original install of PS so I'm not sure how to get it.

 

Also, side note, if I modify csss/templates in the PS core, what happens when it upgrades?

 

Thanks!

Edit: Whoops, I completely thought I was in the modules forum.  

Edited March 5, 2016 by mbreezy (see edit history)

[musicmaster]

You can find the code on Github, but I doubt you need that.

 

Instead you can just copy the modules\homefeatured directory (with subdirs) inside the modules directory. 

 

The object should always have the same name as the directory. I don't have experience with this specific module, but usually the quickest way is just to do a search and replace for the name. So if you named your copy homemyfeats you would replace all occurrences of "homefeatured" with that word.

 

One little caveat: many themes have their own homefeatured modules. These are stored under the theme subdirectory spread over different subdirectories there and they overrule the files under the main modules directory.