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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)

Technical requirements

As with the previous chapters, there is a demo that you can find on our GitHub repository here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modernizing-Enterprise-CMS-using-Pimcore/.

All you need to run the demo connected to this chapter is to clone it, then navigate to the Full Demo folder and start the Docker environment.

To do so, just follow these instructions:

  1. Run Docker with the following command:
    docker-compose up
  2. Then, to restore all the settings from on your local machine, type the following:
    docker-compose exec php bash restore.sh
  3. Navigate to http://localhost/admin and log in with your admin/pimcore credentials.

What you will get with this setup is the following:

  • A BlogBundle where you will find all the assets produced in this chapter
  • A fully working Pimcore instance, with data and configuration installed

This project is a good reference, but after all the practice we have had with Pimcore, you could also start...