Architecture

May 5, 2026 By Krystian Podemski

Teaching AI to speak PrestaShop

How Repository Intelligence makes the project's conventions readable by every AI tool, not just one.

You ask your AI assistant to add a new Back Office listing page. It dutifully reaches for HelperList, configures a few fields, drops in a legacy admin controller, and produces something that would have looked perfectly correct in PrestaShop 1.7. The code compiles, the page renders, and you ship it. Six months later, you end up rewriting it on top of the Grid component, a GridDefinitionFactory, and a CQRS-aware controller wiring, because that is the architecture the rest of the codebase has been using for years.

May 31, 2023 By Mathieu Ferment

PrestaShop ZIP archives repository is available

Keeping past PrestaShop versions

In order to make sure old release packages remain available for anyone who needs them, we published a new GitHub repository “ZIP Archives”, which aims to store all published PrestaShop ZIP archives.

Nov 30, 2020 By Pablo Borowicz

From legacy to future architecture: Connecting the dots

Some ideas on how we'll get from Point A to Point B

This is the fourth and final article in a series we introduced last year, that aims to describe where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.

Dec 26, 2019 By Pablo Borowicz

PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond, part 3: The Future Architecture

aka Point B – Where we are going

This is the third in a series of articles we introduced earlier this year, that aims to describe where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.

Oct 14, 2019 By Coline Ginestet

PrestaShop 1.7 modules - Latest releases & updates

Get some great news about PrestaShop 1.7 modules!

All product and core teams have been quite busy over the past 6 months, working hard on delivering PrestaShop 1.7.6, but not only! We have also worked on bringing new features and improving the 1.7 version through our PrestaShop modules.

Oct 7, 2019 By Pablo Borowicz

PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond, part 2: The Pain Points

aka What needs to be improved

This is the second in a series of articles we introduced earlier this year, which aims to describe where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.

May 22, 2019 By Pablo Borowicz

Announcing end of support for obsolete PHP versions

It's time to move forward

About a year and a half ago, we announced that PrestaShop 1.7.4.0 would be dropping support for PHP 5.4 and 5.5. At that time, this decision was justified by the impending end-of-maintenance for Symfony 2 and its replacement by Symfony 3, which didn’t support PHP versions older than 5.5.

Feb 19, 2019 By Pablo Borowicz

PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond, part 1: The current architecture

aka point A – Where we are

This is the first in a series of articles we introduced a couple days ago, that aims at describing where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.

Feb 5, 2019 By Pablo Borowicz

PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond

Where we are, where we are going, and how will we get there

When working in a project as big and complex as PrestaShop, it’s easy to get too focused on what you are doing right now, and lose sight of the big picture. However, it’s very important not to do that, because every decision we take must be coherent with a bigger plan. In fact, I think that the only way to allow a project such as this to be sustainable, coherent and predictable, is to consistently challenge every decision in light of a long-term vision.

Dec 3, 2015 By Xavier Borderie

An update on the 1.7 architecture

What's happening in NewArchi land?

Remember, back in May 2015, when we announced that we were building a new architecture for PrestaShop, with the first bits of code landing in version 1.6.1.0 (released in early July 2015)? Yeah, that was fun. But now that 1.7 is steaming ahead, it’s time to let you know about our updated plans about the new architecture…