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Mastering Mambo : E-Commerce, Templates, Module Development, SEO, Security, and Performance

By : Christian Wenz, Tobias Hauser
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Mastering Mambo : E-Commerce, Templates, Module Development, SEO, Security, and Performance

By: Christian Wenz, Tobias Hauser

Overview of this book

<p>Mambo is a PHP-based Open Source CMS. Mambo is both easy to use at the entry level for creating basic websites, while having the power and flexibility to support complex web applications. <br /> <br /> Mambo implements the core requirements of a full featured CMS. It has a powerful and extensible templating system with the ability to upload and manage many different data types. User access control, content approval, rich administrative control, content display scheduling are all built-in. New features and extensions are constantly added to the core system, with many more being available and supported by the community.<br /> <br /> Most of the Mambo development team now works on a fork of Mambo known as Joomla. Mastering Mambo is fully compatible with Joomla's 1.0 release.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Mambo
Credits
About the Authors
Preface
Index

Mambel Fish


As discussed in the last section, you can influence the wording of the front end with the Mambo language packs. Flexible administration and genuine multilingualism, however, looks different. We would therefore like to present the Mambel Fish component to you.

The name Mambel Fish is derived from the famous Babel Fish, which assumes translation duties in Douglas Adams' classic The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. The name of search machine AltaVista's automatic translator, http://babelfish.altavista.com/, is also based on it.

Despite the name, Mambel Fish does not translate anything automatically, but establishes the framework within which you can integrate your translations. Alex Kempkens is responsible for this component with the nice little fish as its logo.

Installing Mambel Fish

Mambel Fish consists of three basic ZIP files that can be downloaded from http://mamboforge.net/projects/mambelfish/:

  • The MambelFish_1.5.zip component incorporates the actual functions.

  • The module in...