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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 9: Configuring Entities and Rendering Data

In the previous chapter, we learned how the model-view-controller (MVC) development pattern works and then learned what views and model controllers are. We have also seen how the Pimcore routing system works and how to create relationships between elements. Finally, we saw how to modify the content of our entities, adding images, text, and date fields.

In this chapter, we're going to create a blog, and we will cover the following topics:

  • Defining blog classes
  • Creating blog Users and Roles
  • Routing
  • Editing the Controller for our blog
  • Rendering blog views
  • Differences between Pimcore and WordPress

By the end of this chapter, we will have built our first blog with Pimcore, with articles grouped by categories and authors. We will have also learned how to create suitable templates for each page, inserting the necessary code to display the content created.