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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned all the information needed for creating a custom CMS page. We gained an understanding of the MVC model, and we had a deep dive into the templating engine of Pimcore, discovering all the helpers and how to create our own. We also learned how to write backend code in the controller and make it work by defining routing rules. We saw that there are many ways to manage URLs in Pimcore (Hardcoded, Static Route, and Redirect) and they cover all the use cases for a website. Then we had a complete overview of editables, which left us able to master any custom web page just by templating it. Finally, we discovered the block system that allows the iteration of pieces of a template by giving the user the opportunity to manage repetitive patterns in web pages.

This was an intense chapter that provided us with full knowledge of custom CMS pages. What we learned here will be very useful in the next chapter, Chapter 9, Configuring Entities and Rendering Data...