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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)

What is a Class?

In this section, you will learn what a class is in Pimcore and how it is useful for managing any kind of data. In the context of Object-Oriented-Programming, a class consists of a set of variables (or properties) suitable to represent a concept, methods to affect values, and the behavior of objects that instantiate the class itself.

Pimcore classes reflect this definition, but there is more. In the following sections, we will better understand how those classes work, and how they simplify our work on dataset development. In particular, we will see that despite the name, Pimcore is not limited to product information management; moreover, you will discover that no coding at all is needed to define classes.

Designing different concepts

As we already know, one of Pimcore's main features is product information management, so we are led to believe that everything revolves around the definition of a Product class. This is often true, of course, but it must not...