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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 10: Creating Pimcore Bricks

In the previous chapter, we learned how to use Pimcore to create entities and render custom web pages. Previously, in Chapter 8, Creating Custom CMS Pages, we discovered how to create CMS pages using the web interface or custom Model View Controller (MVC) pages. In both cases, we'd like to have some reusable components that can be defined once and used in every case by changing some settings. Think about a contact form widget that you can drag and drop on any web page. Well, these kinds of reusable components in Pimcore are called Bricks.

In this chapter, we will learn how to build reusable components that can be placed in CMS or MVC pages and, moreover, can be ported from project to project using bundles.

This is our roadmap:

  • Creating a bundle
  • Understanding how a Brick works
  • Implementing a simple Brick
  • Implementing a contact form Brick
  • Implementing a Slideshow brick
  • Using bricks and blocks for a general-purpose...