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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
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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)

Defining the Product Entity

In the previous section, you learned about the concept of Product Information Management. As the name suggests, in a PIM system, it's mandatory to create a class that represents the products, and this is what we are going to do in this section.

Pimcore does not set any constraints as far as the concept of products is concerned, so we can simply create a class named Product and define all the attributes that reflect our needs. So, as you learned in Chapter 5, Exploring Objects and Classes, just go through Settings | Data Objects | Classes, and create a new class named Product.

If you followed the instructions provided in the Technical requirements section, you should find an already defined Product class. Please note that this is just a typical example of the concept of a product and that you can add or remove class attributes according to your needs. You can see what this class looks like in the following screenshot:

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