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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, you learned about the concept of Product Information Management by defining a Product entity and providing practical examples. In the first section of the chapter, you learned what a PIM is and what its main features are. Then, you learned how to create and configure a Product class, according to your needs.

After having defined the Product class, you learned how to enable inheritance for the class and how to define product variants for an existing product. Through practical code examples, you also learned how to retrieve variants on listings and how to create new product variants.

Later in this chapter, you learned about the concept of product bundling and how to add new fields to the Product class to let you define bundle products. Then, you learned how to create an event listener service to listen to events fired by the objects—for example, to catch once the product is saved. In particular, you have seen a code example showing how to calculate...