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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)

Performing Data Entry

In this section, we will check how class definitions are reflected in concrete object instances, discovering how to create Pimcore objects and perform data entry to fill their information. We will see how to easily create folders and objects, how to relate them, and how to create object variants. Then we will discover how easy and fast it is to add new attributes or edit some existing ones, paying attention to this last point to avoid the loss of data.

Creating Folders and Objects

In Pimcore, unlike what you might think, folders are just instances of a common base class for which we are not able to add custom attributes. It's not mandatory to create folders; think of it just as a helping feature to organize your objects semantically as you do on your PC desktop. Different folders can be nested in a tree structure. To create your first folder, follow the steps given here:

  1. Open the Data Objects section on the main left panel, and right-click the...