PrestaShop: add custom menu tab into administration panel

Trabla: PrestaShop: add custom menu tab into administration panel

 Solving:

Steps Overview:
1. Create AdminMySettingsController.php file (  MySettings replace with yours name )
and  add  fields description
2. Put file into /var/www/prestashop/controllers/admin/ folder on web-server
3. Execute INSERTs into tables ps_tab ( set class_name = AdminMySettings ,  Controller.php is added automaticaly)    and ps_tab_lang  
4. Clear PrestaShop cache to view new tab


Steps:
1. Create AdminMySettingsController.php file (  MySettings replace with yours name )
and  add  fields description

<?php

class AdminMySettingsController extends AdminControllerCore{
   
    public function __construct(){
   

        $this->bootstrap = true;
        $this->className = 'Configuration';
        $this->table = 'configuration';
        $this->controller_name = "AdminMySettings";
       
       
        $this->fields_options = array(
            'general' => array(
                'title' =>    $this->l('General'),
                'icon' =>    'icon-cogs',
                'fields' =>    array(
                    //This is my custom setting
                    // - saved in table "ps_configuration" with "name" = 'MY_SETTING_1'
                    'MY_SETTING_1' => array(
                        'title' => $this->l('My Setting 1'),
                        'hint' => $this->l('This is my setting 1'),
                        'type' => 'text',
                        'size' => '10'
                    ),

                ),
                   
                'submit' => array('title' => $this->l('Save'))
            ),
        );
       
        parent::__construct();   

    }
}
?>

 2. Put file into /var/www/prestashop/controllers/admin/ folder on web-server ,
change /var/www/prestashop/ to your path

3. Execute INSERTs into tables ps_tab ( set class_name = AdminMySettings , suffix Controller.php is added automaticaly)    and ps_tab_lang 

INSERT INTO ps_tab(id_tab,id_parent, class_name,module,position,active,hide_host_mode)
VALUES (1000,0,'AdminMySettings','',100, 1, 0) ;

where 
1000 - id_tab , make sure you don't use already existed id
0 - id_parent  , 0 means highest level, if you set id of existed tab - will be added as sub-menu
 

INSERT INTO ps_tab_lang( id_tab, id_lang, name) VALUES (1000,3,'My Settings');

 where
3 - id of English from table ps_lang

4. Clear PrestaShop cache to view new tab -
login into administration panel -> Advance parameters -> Performance