Tutorial: Creating your first module :: PrestaShop Developer Documentation

Tutorial: Creating your first moduleBefore you start writing code for your PrestaShop module, we recommend reading PrestaShop’s Coding standards. Configuring your IDE hints or using automated tools can help you make sure you follow the project’s standards properly.

Let’s create a first simple module, this will allow us to better describe its structure. We will name it “My module”.

First, create the module’s folder, in PrestaShop’s /modules folder. Let’s call it mymodule. This will be the module’s “technical” name.

Technical names can only accept lower case alphanumeric characters ([a-z0-9]). Although accepted, we strongly discourage using underscores because they don’t work with translation domains.

This folder must contain the main file, a PHP file of the same name as the folder, which will handle most of the processing: mymodule.php.

That is enough for a very basic module. Obviously, more files and folders can be added later, if needed.

The constant test

The main mymodule.php file must start with the following test: