I'm developing a prestashop module that has to make lists of existing products.
For the configuration panel of the module, using renderForm() and getContent(), I'm trying to replicate the "accesories" capability, where you start writing some info of a product on an input, and it shows the products that are a match. When selecting that product, it gets added on a list. Like this:
This a screenshot of Catalog / Products / Associations tab.
I'm trying with PS 1.6.0.14 and PS1.6.1.0RC3. How would I replicate this functionality to get lists of products on a module configuration panel?
I tried looking here Prestashop AdminProductsController.php but I don't really understand where half of that info is coming from.
I think that to achieve that functionality, the renderForm() function won't be enough since you have to bind some javascript and some custom html.
The process of writing a fully functional module is a bit long but by taking the accessories functionality as a starting point it wont be so hard and you will always have a reference on "how-to-do-it". I would go with this:
1) first create your
function to be able to show the custom template and the product associated by your module so we will have something along:
2) create a template that will be able to show the automplete and the list. Here we will loop trough the saved associations to create our autocomplete list, and we will do it with some hidden field to keep track of the ids/name and also a visible list were we will have a delete button for each row.
3) Now we can add the javascript to bind an autocomplete on the main input and perform all the logic for each action
4) now you just need to save the associations made by your module autocomplete, and i suggest to perform it by first deleting any association made on a given product and then saving all of them. so you don't have to care about inserting or updating an entry
I hope it can help you to go through all of this.