Display module output anywhere

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I came across a post on the Prestshop forum recently that was discussing how to display the contents of a single module on a page. The example proposed worked, but it seems to me that it worked only through sheer luck rather than design as all that was being done was to display a smarty .tpl file. The smarty variables required for the module used in the example were all included as global values, so it worked, but most other modules would need to be able to execute their underlying hook code in order to display anything meaningful.
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Tags: cron, development, Free Prestashop Modules

Full article » | Comments (0) | January 2nd, 2010

Customising Prestashop Module Templates

Posted by admin | Filed under Tips and Tricks

Please don’t edit those originals!

I came across this little gem a while ago on the Prestashop forum, and thought I would draw attention to it in the hopes that it will help someone, somewhere.

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Tags: design, Free Prestashop Modules, Prestashop, template, theme

Full article » | Comments (6) | August 6th, 2009

Using FirePHP (FireBug) with Prestashop

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Debugging can be such a pain sometimes…

I’ve been using FirePHP for some time now on my CodeIgniter projects and recently while I was looking at doing some cool things with the product data returned by the Category::getProducts() function it struck me that it would be nice to be able to easily see what data was returned. Why I’ve never used the FirePHP class in my Prestashop projects before I’ve no idea, as it really is very simple to use, if a little erratic in its behaviour….

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Tags: debug tools, development

Full article » | Comments (3) | August 4th, 2009