Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the concept of classes. In Pimcore, a class represents the definition of a concept, such as a product or a category. We can add both layout and data components to model our classes and integrate them at any time, along with adding or editing their properties.

We learned that to define a class, it's not necessary to write any code or to create database tables, because Pimcore does all the magic updating the code and database every time you make a change on the class.

We know it's possible to create a custom PHP class that can be extended by one or more classes; this could be useful to add class methods to be used in development. With the same principle, it's possible to define rules to provide default values for class fields or calculate values for particular kinds of components.

We also learned how we can relate different classes, or link assets and documents to class objects using a particular kind of component, and...