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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)

Inheriting documents

Document inheritance is a feature that lets you create a pre-filled document where you can override just the section you need. Think of this feature as a "template in a template." This feature is activated by setting the Content Master Document property in the document settings. This feature applies to every document type, and it is very useful for repetitive content, such as newsletters or technical documentation.

In the following steps, we will see how to take advantage of inheritance for reusing content and organizing website content better. We will create a simple product catalog with a product (here, t-shirts) with multiple variants (one variant per color), and each variant will have its web page.

Follow these steps to do this:

  1. First of all, we have to create a template for a product page. So, let's create a file called product.html.twig inside /templates/Default. The process is very similar to the one followed in the Editing a...