Introduction

This is part 3 of the guide that is designed to assist you with building a new theme for your Prestashop cart. You can read Part 1 and part 2 here

Creating a preview.jpg and enabling the theme

Create a file called preview.jpg in your favorite graphics editor (gimp, photoshop etc)and save it in the root directory.

Introduction

Please find a useful list of prestashop smarty variables. This is very useful when creating a template / theme or a module for prestashop. This list is taken from the init.php file found in the root of prestashop installation.

The list

The left hand items listed in red such as 'base_dir' are the variables you would use in your prestashop smarty templates. The right hand side points to what they mean.

Introduction

The Prestashop e-commerce platform allows users to leave feedback on individual products by leaving comments on each product. However, there is no method for users to leave feedback regarding the overall service of the shop. This module is designed to provide that functionality to store owners who wish to have this extra functionality. The module allows users to submit a testimonial for the store owner to approve. It also optionally supports reCaptcha as a form spam prevention method.

Compatibility

Introduction

Having been looking for a Open Source shopping cart solution I stumbled on prestashop. It is a good solution which seemed to be what I was looking for. Like a lot of modern carts and CMSes it uses system of plug-in modules to add extra functionality that doesn't come as standard. The only slight problem with this module system, is how do you create a plug-in module!? It isn't exactly obvious.