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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)

Chapter 6: Using Digital Asset Management

In the previous chapter, you learned what a Pimcore class is and how to create object instances for defined classes.

In this chapter, we will focus on Digital Asset Management (DAM), which is one of the main Pimcore features. This feature doesn't just let you upload your images like a storage platform, but it also helps you to categorize, elaborate, and version images and, in general, any kind of file, and distribute them across different channels. The chapter is organized as follows:

  • What is a DAM?
  • Uploading and Relating Assets
  • Editing Images
  • How to Create Thumbnails

After starting with an explanation of what a DAM is, we will then introduce the Pimcore DAM features. Then, we will discover how to upload digital assets on Pimcore and how to relate them to objects. A specific focus on images will follow, to let you see how images can be edited or enhanced inside Pimcore, and then we'll explore how easy...