If you have an old Prestashop version running in your hosting, then you should consider upgrading to latest stable version of Prestashop. (currently is 1.3.1). This is a step by step guide for upgrading process :
1) Backup your current files and database. I rather to create a folder called BACKUP, and copy all files into that folder. For the database, export in phpmyadmin (be sure that exported database is working and not corrupted).
Sending Email to Admin When Customer Registers on prestashop
Do you often have a registered customers but you didnt notice them? Perhaps its because default prestashop didnt support this feature.
In order to enable this feature, you must do a little tweak to your prestashop files. Heres how to do the tweak.
1. Backup authentication.php file
2. Open the authentication.php file, and go to line 95, at the start of the else clause and email is sent to the customer with their details.
Change the following code:
if (!Mail::Send(intval($cookie->id_lang), 'account', 'Welcome!', array('{firstname}' => $customer->firstname, '{lastname}' => $customer->lastname, '{email}' => $customer->email, '{passwd}' => Tools::getValue('passwd')), $customer->email, $customer->firstname.' '.$customer->lastname)) $errors[] = Tools::displayError('cannot send email');