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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)

Discovering Relevant Field Types

In the previous section, we created our first class. The created class is just like an empty box of which, let's say, we have just established the shape and the dimensions. In this section, we will see how we can model our class, defining layout components and all different kinds of attributes. These concepts are crucial to properly configure your classes according to your needs. In particular, we will describe the two different kinds of attributes:

  • The Layout Components
  • The Data Components

Let's see both of these kinds of components in the following sections.

Layout Components

The layout components allow us to organize the class attributes through space. To better understand the usefulness of these components, let's think about a website structure. There are no rules that prevent putting all site information vertically on the page. All text, input fields, images, and related links, just listed one below the previous...