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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)

Technical requirements

If you followed the instructions in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Pimcore Development Environment, you should have a copy of the source code related to this book on your local machine.

So, all you need to do to run the demo connected with this chapter is clone the source code, navigate to the 4. Creating documents in Pimcore folder, and start a Docker environment.

You can find all the code files for this chapter on GitHub here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modernizing-Enterprise-CMS-using-Pimcore/tree/main/4.%20Creating%20documentes%20in%20Pimcore.

To start the code on your PC, just navigate to folder 4. Creating documents in Pimcore and follow these instructions:

  1. Run Docker with the following command:
    docker-compose up
  2. Then, to restore all the settings from on your local, type this:
    docker-compose exec php bash restore.sh
  3. Navigate to http://localhost/admin and log in with your admin/pimcore credentials.

Now you are ready to...