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

By : Christian Wenz, Tobias Hauser
Book Image

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

Chapter 5. E-Commerce

For many enterprises, an e-commerce application is part of today's web appearance. There is a virtual standard in this area for Mambo, Mambo-phpShop. phpShop (which changed its name to VirtueMart while the book was in development) has proven itself very well in practice and in the context of our projects. It must, however, be stated that a shop is not simple. One can guide a user in various ways in a shop, but only few are successful. The appearance, of course, plays a huge role. This chapter attempts to get you off to a good start. Your own ideas and conceptions will soon play the most vital role.

Note

Please note that during the development of this book, Mambo-phpShop changed its name to VirtueMart and has its new homepage at http://www.virtuemart.org/. The instructions in this chapter still all apply, but some of the screens may look different.