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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)

Implementing a contact form brick

In this example, we will discover how to create an interactive component where the user can insert data. For this purpose, we will create a contact form. The behavior of this widget will be straightforward: we will have a form with a subject, name, message, and clickable button. An email will be sent to a fixed recipient address once the details are filled in and the button is clicked. This example will also introduce a working example of opening the brick's editor to get parameters not shown in the view. Follow these steps to implement the example:

  1. First, create a document with a template and place an areabrick in the editable's template. In the next step, we will have to create the brick.
  2. Create the ContactForm.php file in /bundles/BlogBundle/Document/Areabrick/. The content will be as follows:
    class ContactForm extends AbstractTemplateAreabrick
    {
        public function getName()
        {
    &...