Get name of module in PrestaShop front controller

Question

In PrestaShop (specifically v1.7.5) one can get an instance of the module class by calling

$module = Module::getInstanceByName(\'theModuleName\');


        

Answer 1

If you are working in a child from ProductListingFrontController, this->module is not defined. If you call the module with getInstanceByName, you get an instance in order to work with it later. The string way doesn´t work in Listing controllers.

class mymoduleMyControllerModuleFrontController extends ProductListingFrontControllerCore
     {
        public function init()
        {
            parent::init();
    
            $this -> module = Module::getInstanceByName('mymodule');
    }
}

Answer 2

You can access the module name (along with the rest from the module class) by:

$theModuleName = $this->module->name;

Using Prestashop core module "Cronjobs" as an example, you can also run module methods inside a front controller like this:

class CronjobsCallbackModuleFrontController extends ModuleFrontController
{
    public function postProcess()
    {
        $this->module->sendCallback();
        die;
    }
}