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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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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

What is a Class?

In this section, you will learn what a class is in Pimcore and how it is useful for managing any kind of data. In the context of Object-Oriented-Programming, a class consists of a set of variables (or properties) suitable to represent a concept, methods to affect values, and the behavior of objects that instantiate the class itself.

Pimcore classes reflect this definition, but there is more. In the following sections, we will better understand how those classes work, and how they simplify our work on dataset development. In particular, we will see that despite the name, Pimcore is not limited to product information management; moreover, you will discover that no coding at all is needed to define classes.

Designing different concepts

As we already know, one of Pimcore's main features is product information management, so we are led to believe that everything revolves around the definition of a Product class. This is often true, of course, but it must not...

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