PrestaShop Interview Questions

Question

1) What is Prestashop?

Answer 1

Prestashop is free rich featured open source e-commerce solution published under Open Software License (OSL).
It allows users to create online stores.It is written in the PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system.

Answer 2

Below are the list features supported Prestashop:-

Hundreds of Store Templates
Inbuilt Website Builder
Mobile Responsive ready
Support over 50 world-class payment solutions and gateways.
Supports for shipping Methods
Multilingual available in over 25 different languages

Answer 3

PrestaShop is based on a 3-tier architecture:

Object/data. Database access is controlled through files in the “classes” folder.
Data control. User-provided content is controlled by files in the root folder.
Design. All of the theme’s files are in the “themes” folder.

Answer 4

As on Dec 2018 1.7.4.4 is current stable version of PrestaShopwhich was released on November 6, 2018, you can download it free from its official website https://www.prestashop.com/en/download

Answer 5

The folder structure of the Prestashop 1.7

├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── README.md
├── _dev
│   ├── css
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── js
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── package.json
│   └── webpack.config.js
├── assets
│   ├── css
│   │   ├── ...
│   ├── img
│   │   └── ...
│   └── js
│       └── ...
├── composer.json
├── config
│   └── theme.yml
├── modules
│   └── ...
├── plugins
│   └── ...
├── preview.png
└── templates
    ├── _partials
    │   └── ...
    ├── catalog
    │   ├── _partials
    │   │   └── ...
    │   ├── listing
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── ...
    ├── checkout
    │   ├── _partials
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── ...
    ├── cms
    │   ├── _partials
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── ...
    ├── contact.tpl
    ├── customer
    │   ├── _partials
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── ...
    ├── errors
    │   ├── ...
    │   └── static
    │       └── ...
    ├── index.tpl
    ├── layouts
    │   ├── layout-both-columns.tpl
    │   ├── layout-content-only.tpl
    │   ├── layout-error.tpl
    │   ├── layout-full-width.tpl
    │   ├── layout-left-side-column.tpl
    │   └── layout-right-side-column.tpl
    ├── page.tpl
    └── wrapper.tpl
Source: http://developers.prestashop.com/themes/gettingstarted/index.html

Answer 6

Prestashop Modules are small programs that make use of PrestaShop’s functionality and changes them or add to them in order to make PrestaShop easier to use or more customized.All modules in Prestashop are located in modules folder of the application.

Answer 7

In PrestaShop, all table names must begin with the PrestaShop “_DB_PREFIX_” prefix.They must be singular and have the same name as the object they reflect.

Answer 8

In Prestashop basically, two types of modules are present. They are

Fronted Modules
Backend Modules

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Answer 9

To enable multistore mode in Prestashop. Please follow below steps

Log-in to your shop’s administration.
Go to the "Preferences" menu and select the "General" page.
Find the "Enable multistore" option, select "Yes".
Save your changes.

Answer 10

Steps to install a Module in Prestashop:-

In the modules tab, click on add a new module
If a file of the module exists online, specify its URL in the Module URL field and then click on Download this module
If the file is on your computer, click on Browse to open the dialogue box letting you search your computer, select the file then validate the dialogue box.
Finally click on Upload this module.
If the following error message appears:

This means that the PHP extension php_zip is not installed on your server. You will need to install it or have it installed by your web host.
If the installation is successful, the following message will appear:

The module will then appear in your list of modules under the Module tab.
Click on the install button to install the module.
If the Configuration note appears in the module insert, click on it to configure it.

Source:- https://addons.prestashop.com/en/content/21-how-to

Answer 11

Hooks are a way to associate your code to some specific PrestaShop events.Most of the time, they are used to insert content in a page.Hooks can also be used to perform specific actions under certain circumstances (i.e. sending an e-mail to the client).

To know more about Prestashop hooks visit http://build.prestashop.com/news/new-updated-hooks-1-7-1-0/

Answer 12

There are four Payment Option types supported by Prestashop they are

Offline
External
Embedded
Iframe

Answer 13

$this->context->customer->isLogged() method is used to check user is logged in or not in PrestaShop.

Answer 14

$smarty.server.REQUEST_URI is used to get the URL of the current page in Prestashop using smarty.

Answer 15

For read, remove a key/value from Cookie, you can use key/value as a property of cookie object for example: echo $cookie->key1; for read and $cookie->key1 = null for remove. And for write you can use: $cookie->write();

Answer 16

To create your own hook in Prestashop you can follow the given steps:

Go to Theme directory / config / theme.yml file and find the block “hooks”
Inside the hooks block add

custom_hooks:

- name: yourCustomHookName

title: yourCustomHookName

description: Adds Block before the footer block

Now, you need to place hook in the template file. For example, Go to : Theme directory > templates > _partials > footer.tpl
Now add the custom hook : {hook h='yourCustomHookName'}