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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)

Exploring the UI Components

Pimcore is a huge environment, supported by an equally important and extensive framework (Symfony), and this can be a bit confusing, especially for those new to Pimcore. But like all long journeys, we have to start with one step. Here's our first one. Let's log into the administration panel.

First of all, we need to access the Pimcore administration; to do this, we must log in to the administration page by visiting the page yoursite.com/admin/. Here is the first screen we are faced with, and we are welcomed by the Pimconaut, the Pimcore mascot:

Figure 3.2: Pimcore Administration Login Page (the image on this page changes from time to time)

Once logged in, we will be on the administration page, the Pimcore control room. In the next screenshot, we will see how the control room looks:

Figure 3.3 – Pimcore administration

As we can see, the Pimcore dashboard is divided into four parts...