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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)

Defining blog classes

As we said, a blog is made up of articles and categories, so the first step we need to do is to create two classes relating to these. In addition to these two classes, we have to create a third class: BlogAuthor.

All the field types that we are going to use in our classes have already been seen and described in depth in Chapter 5, Exploring Objects and Classes, so what interests us in this chapter is to define them with their name and type.

The only new element we use is the slug field, which for this reason we will briefly describe.

A slug is a part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that identifies a particular page on a website in an easy-to-read way. In other words, it's a part of a URL that explains a page's content—for example, for a URL of https://demo.pimcore.fun/slug, the slug simply is /slug.

Using a slug thus allows us to identify a page through a readable and more identifiable text, compared—for example—...