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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)

Installing a bundle

In this section, we will see how you can add features to Pimcore with the use of bundles. We will then see what a bundle is and how to install it in a few simple steps.

Pimcore offers many features already pre-installed and ready to use, but while these may be sufficient for our needs, it is possible to need additional features that are not available in Pimcore. No problem, because the framework provides a quick and easy way to install new features. Adding functionality to the framework is done by installing packages, or bundles in the Pimcore world, just like in other systems, where they can be identified as plugins, modules, or add-ons. A bundle, in other words, is a package that contains additional components or features that will increase the functionality of Pimcore.

Installing a bundle is a relatively easy operation; let's proceed step by step.

The first thing to do is to identify a bundle to install according to our needs. There's a dedicated...