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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)

Creating product variants

In the previous section, you have seen how to define a Product entity and an example of product object creation. In this section, you will learn how to enable the inheritance for the Product class to create product variants and define configurable products. Later in this section, we will see some PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) code examples that will show how to practically use variants during development.

To enable inheritance for the Product class, open the class definition and select the General Settings root element. You can enable class inheritance and allow the variants' creation by selecting the checkboxes that you see in the following screenshot:

Figure 12.5: Enabling inheritance

As you can see in the previous screenshot, three checkboxes can be enabled, as follows:

  • Allow inheritance: If checked, this property enables inheritance among objects in a tree-structured way. The child objects can be instances of...