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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)

Creating a bundle

Before starting our journey into bricks, we have to learn how to create a bundle. In Chapter 7, Administrating Pimcore Sites, we learned how to install a bundle released from a vendor, but how do we build our own? In this section, we will learn how a bundle is structured and how you can build it. Bundles are very important for creating a portable set of features that you can reuse or distribute across websites. In our demo project, we will create a blog bundle that is self-contained and that you can pick and place on any of your websites.

What is a bundle?

You have used the main application for many examples in previous chapters. This is good for implementing the specific project but it is not portable. Talking simply, a bundle is a folder that contains both source code and templates. You can get this set of files by adding a composer dependency or by using a local folder. This lets you take your code and reuse it in multiple projects, or simply divide a complex...