Book Image

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)

Implementing Custom Solutions

In the previous section, you learned about the limitations of standard import and export functionalities. Then, you learned how to create a custom operator to be used on CSV import processes.

In this section, you will learn how to implement custom solutions for importing and exporting. In particular, you will learn how to add additional buttons to the object and folder editor in the Pimcore backend interface, which will call custom controllers on clicking, and how to create commands that could be scheduled and run as a background process.

Adding custom buttons

In this section, you will learn how to add custom buttons to the Pimcore backend interface, and how to let these buttons call for custom controllers to perform imports and exports.

To add these buttons, we need to implement the postOpenObject function inside the Resources/js/Pimcore/startup.js file of a previously created Pimcore bundle. In the following code snippet, you can see an example...