Prestashop custom tab in Back Office

Question

I'm developing a module for prestashop 1.5.3. I need to create a custom admin tab during the module installation. I make the install like this

public function install()
{
    if( (parent::install() == false)||(!$this->_createTab())  )
        return false;
    return true;
}

And the _createTab method is:

private function _createTab()
{
    $tab = new Tab();
    $tab->id_parent = 7; // Modules tab
    $tab->class_name='AdminWarranty';
    $tab->module='fruitwarranty';
    $tab->name[(int)(Configuration::get('PS_LANG_DEFAULT'))] = $this->l('Warranty');
    $tab->active=1;
        if(!$tab->save()) return false;
return true;
}

And nothing happens.. What am I doing wrong.. and where to find good prestashop developer reference.?

Answer 1

To create a custom tab for a module during installation you can use the following code.

Note: I am considering a test module called News.

private function _createTab()
{
    /* define data array for the tab  */
    $data = array(
                  'id_tab' => '', 
                  'id_parent' => 7, 
                  'class_name' => 'AdminNews', 
                  'module' => 'news', 
                  'position' => 1, 'active' => 1 
                 );

    /* Insert the data to the tab table*/
    $res = Db::getInstance()->insert('tab', $data);

    //Get last insert id from db which will be the new tab id
    $id_tab = Db::getInstance()->Insert_ID();

   //Define tab multi language data
    $data_lang = array(
                     'id_tab' => $id_tab, 
                     'id_lang' => Configuration::get('PS_LANG_DEFAULT'),
                     'name' => 'News'
                     );

    // Now insert the tab lang data
    $res &= Db::getInstance()->insert('tab_lang', $data_lang);

    return true;

} /* End of createTab*/

I hope the above code will help Thanks