About the Reviewers

Romain Berger gained extensive experience of using PrestaShop while working at BBS Concept, a web agency where he worked on several e-commerce websites, including the impressive Stickaz.com. He is now a frontend developer at Dailymotion, the second largest video sharing platform in the world.

When Romain is not writing code for Dailymotion, you can find him contributing to open source communities or making music.

Altaf Hussain has worked with numerous different open source web technologies, especially in e-commerce systems such as PrestaShop and Magento. He is a big fan of PrestaShop coding standards. He has been working with PrestaShop for more than 5 years and has developed advanced modules, custom features to modify default behaviors of PrestaShop, and templates.

Currently, Altaf is working on PrestaShop, Magento, Drupal, Zend, Yii, and cross-platform mobile apps in Titanium. He is also working on website performance techniques using Nginx, Percona DB, PHP-FPM, Zend OPcache, and Varnish Cache.

Sandeep Kamlesh Mishra is a software engineer on paper and a marketer at heart. He is an e-commerce and m-commerce enthusiast. He has achieved a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mumbai University. He works as a backend developer. He has good working knowledge of PrestaShop, Magento, Osclass, and native and hybrid mobile application development. He believes in the power of the Internet and wants to explore the world of start-ups.

Sandeep works as a software engineer with IGATE Corporation, Bangalore, India. He is a Salesforce developer for web and mobile platforms.

I would like to thank the author for writing such a great book, taking into consideration PrestaShop developers' needs. I would also like to thank Anugya, Binny, and Priyanka from Packt Publishing for their support during the course.

Ratko Projkovski is the main initiator, cofounder, and CEO of Blue Zone Ltd., Skopje (www.bluezone.com.mk), a company that started as a mobile marketing company and evolved to be a ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005 and ISO/IEC 27001-1:2005 company. It provides various ICT services to Macedonian and other international clients ranging from entrepreneurs and small/medium size companies to huge international corporations and enterprises.

These days, Ratko is highly focused on finding new business opportunities and international contacts for further growth and expansion of Blue Zone Ltd., Skopje.

Ratko's professional profile is based on e-business, official training and self-training for software development, system engineering, information security. He has also attended many seminars/events based on customer relationship management, project management, e-business solutions, e-society, e-government, computer crime, European funds for the development of ICT, among others.

Along with his full-time professional career, he is also actively interested in indie game development for various platforms.

Bart Sallé is a web developer from the Netherlands who is specialized in HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and jQuery.

He loves open source software and works with TYPO3, WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal GetSimple CMS, PrestaShop, OpenCart, WooCommerce, osCommerce, and VirtueMart.

Bart was one of the first people in the Netherlands who started to build his webshops using PrestaShop as a base.

He is still as excited about PrestaShop as he was back then, when the first stable version of PrestaShop was released.

Bart's company website can be found at www.os-evolution.com and his personal website can be found at www.bartsalle.nl.

I would like to acknowledge Jolanda, my wife, and my two beautiful kids, Noa and Fenne.

I would also like to acknowledge my mother, Lies, and my father, Theo, who passed away in January 2013.