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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

You're reading from   Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore Discover techniques and best practices for creating custom websites with rich digital experiences

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075404
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Minà Francesco Minà
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Marco Guiducci Marco Guiducci
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Daniele Fontani Daniele Fontani
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introducing Pimcore 2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Pimcore Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Pimcore Admin UI 4. Chapter 4: Creating Documents in Pimcore 5. Chapter 5: Exploring Objects and Classes 6. Chapter 6: Using Digital Asset Management 7. Chapter 7: Administrating Pimcore Sites 8. Chapter 8: Creating Custom CMS Pages 9. Chapter 9: Configuring Entities and Rendering Data 10. Chapter 10: Creating Pimcore Bricks 11. Chapter 11: Finalizing the Website 12. Chapter 12: Implementing Product Information Management 13. Chapter 13: Implementing Master Data Management 14. Chapter 14: Data Integration 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing a simple brick

In this section, we will implement our first brick. Because the spirit of this book is to learn using real-world examples, we won't limit this to a "hello world" example. In our first example, we will create a widget that could be placed many times on the page and reused. This widget will allow adding text, choosing the header type (h1, h2, and so on), and entering the text.

To complete this goal, we have to follow these steps:

  1. Create a document and link it to a controller and a template file. We have done this step many times in Chapter 4, Creating Documents in Pimcore, and Chapter 9, Configuring Entities and Rendering Data. This document will be used for testing the brick that we are creating.
  2. Create a Heading.php file inside /bundles/BlogBundle/Document/Areabrick. The contents of the file should be like this:
    class Header extends AbstractTemplateAreabrick
    {
        public function getName()
       ...
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