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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
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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)

What is a document?

Generally speaking, everybody uses documents every day. We deal with document specifications for our boss or our customer, we write documents to keep track of the changes in our software… but what is a document in Pimcore? In the context of information science, we are not referring to a paper sheet, but to a digital asset that contains unstructured information; in our case, a web page is a document. Documents are organized into a document tree that creates a hierarchy between elements. This structure of documents will represent the structure of the website. This may seem complicated to read, but it is very easy to put into practice.

In the following example, we have a simple website composed of a tree web:

Figure 4.1: The document list

These are the pages we will create during this chapter and that will show all the document features.

We told you that a document could be any type of unstructured data container. Such containers...