Comments on: Quick Tip: Adding hooks to Prestashop 1.5 (the new way)

By: Bara Anton Florian

Bara Anton Florian — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:07:00 +0000

This was very useful! Thank you for taking your time to share this knowledge.

By: Brewal

Brewal — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:51:00 +0000

I recommend using this method in order to override module’s bootstrap php :

https://github.com/FlYos/Prestashop-override-module

way better that directly modifying the php of the module itself.
In my opinion, prestashop positionning system really sucks by the way… We should be able to place any module anywhere directly into the admin, and just create hooks in templates.

By: lui1969

lui1969 — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:02:08 +0000

hello Nemo, do you think it is possible to do such a thing in the top menu?

I’ll leave you the link of the forum prestashop

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/300907-add-new-hook-in-top/

thanks

By: Baron

Baron — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:34:49 +0000

Hi all!!!!!!
I just change the Homeslider hook.
It return a value, but i can’t see any pics.

Any idea?

By: Dr. V

Dr. V — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:44:03 +0000

By the way, don’t forget to reset the module on the backend, or it won’t work

By: Dr. V

Dr. V — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:39:18 +0000

Thanks a lot for your tutorial!!!
I went a bit further with this.
You can make it show on the “positions” of your Prestashop, so you can add more modules easily to your hook.
Just add :

public function install()
{
if (!parent::install() || !$this->registerHook(‘top’) || !$this->registerHook(‘beforeFooter’) || !$this->registerHook(‘header’) || !$this->registerHook(‘displayMobileTopSiteMap’))
return false;

//register the hook on positions
Db::getInstance()->execute(‘UPDATE ‘._DB_PREFIX_.’hook SET position=”1″ WHERE name = “beforeFooter”‘);

return true;
}

This will modify your database and set the “position” value to 1.
If you want to make it appear on the “live edit” just update “live_edit” to 1 on the same table.

Cheers.

By: BigRedRadish

BigRedRadish — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:33:30 +0000

I’m fairly new to Prestashop. Thanks for the great tip! I have successfully created a new hook, but I am not able to transplant modules in to it. Is there something else I need to do to be able to transplant modules into the hook?

Thanks for all you great tutorials, they have saved me a lot of time!

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:05:03 +0000

THose functions should only be used in hookHeader actually

By: m.winkler

m.winkler — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:54:20 +0000

adding css or js to the hook is not working;

$this->context->controller->addJS( …
$this->context->controller->addCSS(…

doesn’t show up in the page anymore

By: Yasic

Yasic — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:30:25 +0000

Hi, i’ve tried this with the newsletter module and i get the “hi there” message and the module is planted in the hook (i called it before footer too) but i dont see how the newsletter module itself is being loaded. all i have is the “hi there”.
how do i get the newsletter box to show up?

thanks