The PrestaShop architecture

PrestaShop has been built as a monolith following traditional object-oriented PHP practices. Originally based on a custom framework, it’s progressively being migrated to Symfony.

Topics

• Introduction to PrestaShop's Architecture

  Learn how PrestaShop is structured: back-end, front-end, business stack, themes and modules

• File structure

  An explanation about each directory content of the project

• Legacy

  This section describes components from the Legacy architecture.

• Modern

  This section describes components from the Modern architecture.

• How to migrate Back Office pages to Symfony

  The guide we use to migrate pages to Symfony

• Domain-driven architecture

  Where PrestaShop architecture is going

• Cache

  The folder /var/cache/<ENV> contains all the cached files used by Symfony to improve performance. It also includes the PrestaShop class index and the Smarty cache.