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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)

Activating the Pimcore Datahub bundle

In the previous section, you learned how to implement data management processes, such as the data quality process. These processes, the name of what? unclear, are key aspects of the MDM concept. Another fundamental feature for MDM systems is the possibility to expose entities to third-party applications and sites.

In this section, you will learn how to activate the Pimcore Datahub bundle and how to configure that bundle properly. Later in this chapter, you will learn how to use this bundle to expose Pimcore objects and let external applications create new objects.

As you learned in the Installing a Bundle section of Chapter 7, Administrating Pimcore Sites, Pimcore bundles can be downloaded through the composer package manager; to download the Datahub bundle, you just need to follow these instructions:

  1. Open a shell and point to the chapter folder of the book source code.
  2. Run the following command to jump inside the Docker container...