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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
Book Image

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By: Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà

Overview of this book

Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites. This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites. By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Making the bundles installable

In Chapter 10, Creating Pimcore Bricks, we created all the assets in a single bundle to make them self-contained and portable. The opportunity to start our next Pimcore project by installing a bundle means we don't have to redo certain tasks, making this an attractive option. Anyway, there are some steps that we have done manually through the user interface that have to be replicated. Think back to the class generation in Chapter 9, Rendering Data—they were created manually, but you do not want to replicate this step in every new blog you will create. Even if you only take a few minutes creating them, there is always the risk of entering the wrong field name or making a mistake; they will transform your 5-minute task into a small nightmare.

But never fear! The Pimcore installation system lets you add a special class that can manage the installation process. Some common use cases are as follows:

  • Creating or updating the class definition...