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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)

Using editables

As we introduced in Chapter 4, Creating Documents in Pimcore, Pimcore's editables are a set of visual components that can be used to enter information in the CMS page and are able to render the output to get the web page ready. You should remember the pimcore_input and pimcore_wysiwyg components; well, the good news is that Pimcore has a lot of components like that and covers most of your user needs. In this section, we will take a look at these.

Important note

In the Editables list, we should have Area and Areablock components, but we won't discuss these in this chapter. These elements, in conjunction with Bricks, are the pillars of code reuse in Pimcore and will be covered in Chapter 10, Creating Pimcore Bricks. The motivation is that without discovering what bricks are, the Area, Areablock, and Block components would be hard to understand.

In the next sections, we will discover a list of the editables available. For each one, we will add a snippet...