PrestaShop 1.6.x Front Module for non-CMS Page

Ever want to add a totally new front page to PrestaShop, but found that a CMS page was not enough? I needed to create a totally new page, with a form that could submit to itself, and I did not find info about how to do this in PrestaShop 1.6.

Based on the idea of a module for doing this which I found in a PrestaShop 1.5 article, I did the following...

• Use the PrestaShop module generator to create a new module
• Inside the module folder, create folders /controllers/front/
• Inside /controllers/front/, create a php file that describes the action for the controller
• Name the controller class {modulename}{action}ModuleFrontController (extends ModuleFrontController). E.g. module changepassword, controller file changepassword.php would be
  class changepasswordchangepasswordModuleFrontController extends ModuleFrontController 
• I BELIEVE case is unimportant, but make it case sensitive just in case.
• If the customer needs to be logged in to use the action, then set the following at the beginning of the class before adding functions to your ModuleFrontController
  public $auth = true;
• Put your template in /modules/{your_module}/views/templates/front/{your_template_name}.tpl
• In your ModuleFrontController::initContent() function, do
  parent::initContent(); $this->setTemplate('{your_template_name}.tpl');
• If you are submitting to self, you form action (in the tpl file) should be
  action="{$link->getModuleLink('{modulename}', '{action}')|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}"  
• If you need to define smarty values based on the submitted form, use $this->context->smarty->assign in the init function of your ModuleFrontController.
• Define a URL for the form in admin area -> preferences -> SEO & URLs.