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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned some details of the Pimcore developer that are very important for finalizing our website.

The multisite configuration allows us to use only one Pimcore instance to manage all the company's websites. This is a very interesting feature for saving time and money, using only one Pimcore installation to manage all the company websites.

The installers give us the power to execute installation steps to recreate the configuration needed by our bundle. We can create data assets and perform updates on them. This means that we can take our bundle, install it on another Pimcore instance, and add all the classes and data that the bundle needs to work on. We also learned that we can manage the database changes at a low level.

The multi-environment feature lets UX specify different configurations based on the environment we are using. This is very useful for keeping all the features in one code base. Moreover, we discovered how the powerful inheritance...