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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 a multi-environment configuration

In any modern deployment workflow, we have four environments: local, dev, test, and production. Each of these environments may have different configurations and tunings. Your production environment will probably have to face tons of users and a heavy load in a clustered system, while your local environment will just need to fight with the amount of RAM. What we see is that each environment has different needs, and consequently, needs different configurations. The approach that we want to follow is to keep all the data in a single code base and keep all the settings in the same place. If you are thinking that you'll need to manage a lot of files and complicated logic to switch them, you are wrong.

Fortunately, Pimcore is based on Symfony and extends its very powerful configuration system. Pimcore manages dev, test, and prod environments natively (while others can be added with an additional configuration). To switch the environment, you...