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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)

Using bricks and blocks for a general-purpose template

What we want to do in this section is to find a solution for implementing all kinds of layouts without wasting hours creating custom templates. Theoretically speaking, we could have a set of base objects and then mount them together to create all kinds of websites. In practice, this is what we should do with Pimcore:

Figure 10.13: General-purpose template

The previous diagram shows how a multipurpose layout is structured. We have many horizontal sections (Section 1, …, Section N) that can be divided into columns (col1, col2, col3). In each place, you will be able to add bricks for composing the page in any layout you want.

Theoretically speaking, we need to add a block iteration that will print rows inside another block iteration that will print columns. This lets us create a matrix of elements where we can add an areablock that lets us choose any brick we want. This layout is quite easy to implement...