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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)

Rendering blog views

Once we have identified which page a visitor requested, through the routing rules seen before, and after the data has been extracted and passed to the view through the controller, it remains for this to be displayed correctly on the page. In Pimcore, this can be done using a templating system called Twig, which as we said in Chapter 4, Creating Documents in Pimcore, is the solution with which Pimcore keeps the business logic separate from the presentation logic.

Briefly, Twig is a modern template engine for PHP supported by Symfony (and therefore by Pimcore) that allows you to process code directly in the view page, through its own syntax. The official page of the project, from which it is possible to read the complete documentation, can be reached here: https://twig.symfony.com/.

The template is useful and necessary because it is possible to create a single view for different content. In other words, the templating allows us to create a single HTML page...