creating hooks as per documentation doesnt work about docs HOT 12 CLOSED

Thank you for your patience with me.

Acutally, I dont want to create a new module, but to set a hook in the theme, that i can see in the back office and place an existing module there.

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Hi,

You must have a look on https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/modules/concepts/hooks/
Hooks are register with install method. If you add new hooks after installed your module, you need to reset it :)

Regards

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In the manual they showed two way to create hooks:

From a regular PHP file:
Hook::exec('MyCustomHook');

or
From a Smarty template:
{hook h='MyCustomHook'}

I choose the later for simplicity but it didnt work

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It's not to create Hook, it call a registered hook.
The wording is not clear, but your are looking for Theme hook.

The procedure is :

• Create a module
• Add some hook with registerHook during install() process. (Register Hook)
  • if something wrong, uninstall and install module again
• Add methods corresponding to the selected hook. (Execute hook)

If you create a custom theme and want to add a custom hook for example MyAwesomeDesign:

<div>
  {hook h='MyAwesomeDesign'}
</div>

You must have this in your module:

    public function install()
    {
        return parent::install() && $this->registerHook('MyAwesomeDesign');
    }

   public function hookMyAwesomeDesign()
   {
        // Something I want to do while calling 'MyAwesomeDesign' hook in my theme
   }

Hope I help you =)

from docs.

No probleme, I'm here to help you :)

The only way to register a hook in database is to have a module which use the registerHook function.
Without module, a hook is useless, in my previous example, hook is called with hookMyAwesomeDesign. So if you create a hook without module, it will never called.

Regards

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how about creating a new hook, for an existing module ?

from docs.

What do you mean? Adding a new hook in the core?

Otherwise all registered hooks are related to modules, you can add upgrade directories like this modules: https://github.com/PrestaShop/ps_customtext/tree/master/upgrade to register new hooks or write anything you want during upgrade :)

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Hey, just found this link https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/modules/creation/enabling-auto-update/#adding-updating-modules-or-hooks-between-versions

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Hello @Xsmael,

as your questions have been answered I'm closing this.

Feel free to re-open or to open a new issue if you need helps.

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So you cannot create hook just in the template, so you could later position modules to it? Let's say I need two new hooks in product page, but without any specific module, just to have it in "positions" to attach there any module I want. Isn't the theme.yml file for it? If not, then what is the purpose of registering hook in the theme.yml?

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@grzegorzgit you can indeed register new hooks and modules to it, but if module doesn't implement hook properly there's nothing to display

most of modules are treated as widgets maybe this helps you out a bit?

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I have the same problem. I want to register new hook and place in it module (already installed in my shop)

How to do that. I made custom hook in the theme.yml but I cant see it in Positions in the dashboard. How to make it visible to installed modules to move them to it?

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