Prestashop Tutorial - Updating your Prestashop to Latest version

New versions of PrestaShop come every few weeks. Some are major, most are minor, but they all bring a slew of innovations, improvements and bug-fixes. It is therefore highly advised to keep up with the latest version.

There are 5 steps to follow for a successful upgrade:

1. Save and Backup Your Current Shop
   This step consists of backing up your database and your files. This step is not to be avoided, and should never ever be ignored or skipped. Do not proceed to step 2 without completing this step.
2. Getting Ready for the New Version
   This step consists of preparing the files that you will need to copy into the new version of PrestaShop.
3. Starting the Update
   This step consists of starting the upgrade script which will upgrade your database.
4. QA and Testing
   This step consists of doing various checks to make sure that the store has been properly updated to the latest version.
5. Going Live with the New Website
   This step will accompany you in going live with the latest update

These five steps are necessary for a successful upgrade. Please pay close attention to any of them, and do not skip any steps. Download the tutorial here, Updating Prestashop Tutorial

Done well, the whole update process described within these pages should not take more than half an hour. Do not try to skip a step in order to be done with it faster, as all steps are crucial.

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Prestashop Tutorial - Making Customer Group and Discount for each Customer Group

Grouping your customer is one of Prestashop features that allowing you to treat your customer differently based on their group (or customer level). With this feature, you can set different level, price or discount, permissions for each group of your customer. After you set the customer grouping, all you have to do is categorize your customers to their group. 

This is complete step by step customer group tutorial for Prestashop.

Step 1

On your Prestashop Backend, click Customer tab and choose the Group sub tab. On default Prestashop setting, you will see only Default Group. 

Prestashop Customer tab

Step 2

On your Group tab, Click "Add" to add a new group for your customers. There are 2 text fields: Name and Discount. Write down the name of the group in the name field. There are 2 kinds of discount, discount by percentage and discount by price nominal. If you want to make discount by percentage for each of customer group, then you must fill in the discount field at the Group tab. But, if you want to make discount by nominal of product price, then you should read the step 3 below.

Step 3

When you decide to use discount by nominal price, then you should set the discount price one by one, I repeat it again One by One. Because it's not like the percentage discount that need to set only once. 

Go to the catalog tab, and choose one of product category then choose product that you want to set the discount. 

Product Page

To set the nominal discount, go to Price section of your product page, Click add new custom price base on the group that you have made before. And now you have different customer group or level. It's so simple right, Thanks to Prestashop.

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Prestashop Troubleshoot - Login page keeps appearing on Back office

After you've successfully installed Prestashop on your hosting, some problem might occur. One of the most common problem is some user (admin) always redirect to login page while managing their website on Back office. This is caused by Authorization issue in Prestashop's cookie file. This issue often occurs in Prestashop version 1.4.6.x and has not been fixed in the beta version.

Prestashop Login Page redirect problem

I have some trick to solving this issue, all you have to do is change two lines of your prestashop's cookie file.
That file is located at prestashop/classes/Cookie.php (Prestashop = your public html on cpanel file manager).

Follow This two simple steps:

Step 1

Line 65, try to find this code:

$this->_expire = isset($expire) ? intval($expire) : (time() + 1728000);

change 172800 value into 3600, after you change, it must be like this:

$this->_expire = isset($expire) ? intval($expire) : (time() + 3600);

Step 2

Line 195, try to find this code:

AND (!isset($this->_content['remote_addr']) OR $this->_content['remote_addr'] == ip2long(Tools::getRemoteAddr()))

just add "//" (without quotes of course) exactly before "AND", so it would be like this:

//AND (!isset($this->_content['remote_addr']) OR $this->_content['remote_addr'] == ip2long(Tools::getRemoteAddr()))

Done!

Then save your cookie.php file and try to refresh your browser. Hope you enjoy your time with this awesome CMS. 

If you don't want to edit the coding of the file, you can download the cookie.php file directly from here.
Prestashop Login Page - Cookie.php

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Step by Step Prestashop Installation

In this article you will learn how to install Prestashop on your website. First of All, you should download the latest version of Prestashop Engine at Prestashop's official website. To download Prestashop latest version, you should to Download section.

Step 1. Uploading Prestashop Package
After you have downloaded the Prestashop Package (assume that you had already have domain, hosting), then go to Cpanel and upload the Prestashop Package using File Manager directly on public html or other directory that you desired, for example:

• In case you have uploaded it directly under the public_html folder, it will be accessible directly via your domain name - http://yourdomainname.com
• In case you have used a subdirectory, for example "shop", it will be accessible via http://yourdomainname.com/shop

Step 2. Installing Prestashop
If you are done uploaded the Package, you can access it to through http://yourdomainname.com/ or
http://yourdomainname.com/shop depend on what directory that you had choose before and You will see the Following Page:

Choose language that you prefer, then Choose "I want to install a new online shop with PrestaShop" and don't forget to checklist "I agree to the above terms and conditions." Then Click Next Button. Because Next Page is Check System Compatibility, so I'll skip it to Database configuration.

Assume that you have made a database for your prestashop, if you haven't made the database, you can see the instruction Making MySQL database tutorial.


Input your database name, database user, password then click "Verify my database settings" button. In the Installation type you can choose wether you want a fresh empty copy of prestashop (Lite mode) or Includes all the modules (Full mode). I recommend you to choose Full mode. Because you can decide wether you want to use the modules later. Then Click Next.

You arrived on Shop Configuration Page. On this page, you can set your shop name, shop activity (what do you sell), country, timezone, shop logo, first name, last name, email and password. On this page, you can decide is your website has "add to cart" function or catalog mode only.

Congratulations! You have Prestashop installed on your hosting. Don't forget to delete "Install" Directory and rename "Administrator" directory. 

It seems that you can start to manage your own online shop right now. It's easy right?

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