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Ron
Ron

Reputation: 6735

What is the difference of extension and module in opencart?

I am new to opencart, and I am confused about the terminology between extension and module in opencart, could anyone explain to me?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2216

Answers (5)

Rahul Agarwal
Rahul Agarwal

Reputation: 1

The contrast amongst modules and augmentations in Opencart are:

Modules: A more lightweight and adaptable expansion utilized for page rendering is a module. Modules are utilized for little bits of the page that are by and large less perplexing and ready to be seen crosswise over various segments. Some of the time modules are connected to a segment, for example, the centre most recent news module.

Augmentations: Components, dialects, modules, module and formats are altogether known as Extensions.

Upvotes: -3

Paul Feakins
Paul Feakins

Reputation: 727

Modules: blocks of HTML that have their own config in Extensions > Modules and can be applied to Layout Templates to appear on the left/right/top/bottom of the page. The category left nav is a module.

Extensions: zip files containing an /upload folder which contains files to be uploaded to the web root of your site and can include, new files, new themes, new modules and vQmods. Extensions can add pretty much any functionality to the store and often have an area in the admin for settings and often but not always make changes to the front-end of the store.

More info here: http://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-modules-and-extensions-in-opencar/

Upvotes: 3

siddhesh
siddhesh

Reputation: 598

Extensions: are used to give the additional functionality to the CMS In Opencart, You have the extensions like payment, modules, totals etc.

Modules : this is the special type of extensions which is used to show the information at the front store or adding the functionality that cannot fit into other extensions types read this article for more information http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/opencart/admin-tools/what-are-opencart-extensions-and-modules

For Example: Payment extensions : All payment extension have only one work to process the payment so it is further categorized as payment extensions. and second thing all payment gateways should be list at checkout page so Opencart makes a special category for them same for total extensions

Modules: We cannot say what one module can do If you want to show the user just welcome message you can make the module for it and add it to any layout

Upvotes: 3

sayli bhagwat
sayli bhagwat

Reputation: 273

Extensions are add-on programs that provide extra functionality to your website.

Modules are boxes of information on your site that help the customer make their purchase. These do not provide extra functionality to your website but are intended to display information. Some modules are included by default, such as Account, Affiliate, Bestsellers, Featured, Specials, etc.

I hope this helps, look at this link for some more extensions.

Upvotes: 1

tokas
tokas

Reputation: 99

Module is extention. Payment and Shiping and other is extentions to.

Upvotes: 0

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