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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)

Chapter 5: Exploring Objects and Classes

In this chapter, we are going to see one of the main functionalities that Pimcore offers to us: the possibility of defining a personal and completely custom dataset for each project by creating classes and objects.

The big advantage of using Pimcore is that you can do everything through the user interface, without the need of writing a single line of code or to define complex database structures, changing or adding new attributes whenever you want. Pimcore will do all the magic, and you can update your dataset with no worries of running risky migrations on the database. Besides, you can export and import all class definitions to share them between different projects without the need for reinventing the wheel every time.

In the following sections, we will present class configuration, focusing on various field types that could be added to them, and how to concretely see these classes in action through data entry. If we've caught your...