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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Fontani, Guiducci, Minà
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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

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By: Fontani, Guiducci, 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)
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Understanding how a Brick works

In simple words, a Brick is composed of a class that takes the place of the controller and a view. Building a Brick is not so different from implementing an MVC page. The most important exception is that, in this case, we do not have the routing part, as the Brick is added to an existing page (it cannot be run standalone). In the following diagram, we have a schema that explains how Bricks work:

Figure 10.1: Conceptual schema for a brick

In the previous diagram, we can see that a page (My Page) can host many bricks. Each one is composed of a Class and two templates (edit and view).

In the following sections, we will learn how to implement every single component, including classes and templates.

The class implementation

A brick is an instance of Pimcore\Extension\Document\Areabrick\AreabrickInterface, but for convenience, we always extend the AbstractTemplateAreabrick class, which implements the interface and gives us...

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