Opencart 4 Extension Module Development Guide For Beginners!

Opencart Version 4

Opencart is a free open-source e-commerce platform enabling users to create online stores and sell products. There are many features in OpenCart, with more than 14,000 add-on extensions you can integrate into your site. It supports multi-store development, so you can easily develop and manage different stores with a single interface.

Opencart is based on PHP and follows the MVCL(Model, View, Controller, Language) architecture and uses Mysqli or PostgreSQL database and HTML components (in version 4 “Twig”).

Opencart Directory Structure

In version 4, opencart extensions are found in the “extension” directory within the Opencart root directory.

• Admin
  • Controller
  • Language
  • Model
  • View
• Catalog
  • Controller
  • Language
  • Model
  • View
• Extension
  • Create_module_folder
    • Admin
      • Controller
      • Language
      • Model
      • View
    • Catalog
      • Controller
      • Language
      • Model
      • View
    • Install.json

• Image
• System

NOTE:-  The admin folder stores back end code and also for configuration. And Catalog folder is for front end code.

Stay tuned for further coding part.