title: Create custom page in Prestashop 1.5.3
body: <p>I'd like to create a custom page in Prestashop 1.5.3 without using CMS.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately I can not find any tutorials that are working with 1.5.3.</p>
  
  <p>So far I have created a test.php file in the shops root directory with following content:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  include(dirname(__FILE__).'/config/config.inc.php');
  include(dirname(__FILE__).'/header.php');
  
  $smarty-&gt;display(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'test.tpl');
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I placed the corresponding test.tpl in my themes basefolder. It simply contains 'hello world'.</p>
  
  <p>I changed the blockmenu.php and created a custom link to my page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$this-&gt;_menu .= '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="test.php"&gt;TEST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;'.PHP_EOL;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I click the link the page is displayed but the html is some kind of corrupt. The body-id of the page is set to <em>pagenotfound</em> and the left column is generated but is not shown. Is there any way to set the $page_name for my custom page so that I can check if my custom page is loaded and to supress the generation of the left and right columns?</p>
  
  <p>Is there any other way to create a functional custom page without CMS?</p>