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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

Installation


The phpShop project (http://mamboforge.net/projects/mambo-phpshop/) offers two different variations of phpShop:

  • Installation pack for Mambo: This consists of a bunch of individual components (current file name: mambo-phpShop_1.2_stable-pl3_COMPLETE_PACKAGE.zip)

  • Complete version integrated with Mambo: Mambo eCommerce Edition (or more accurately Mambo 4.5.2.3 *eCommerce Edition*).

The installation with the complete installation pack is not too difficult. You have to first unpack ZIP archives and then install all of the extensions individually. A readme file helps with this; it also explains that two files form the core of phpShop:

  • com_phpShop_1.2_stable-pl3.tar.gz to be used as a component

  • mod_phpShop_1.2_stable-pl3.tar.gz as a module

Of course, the version numbers in the file name change with newer versions.

The remaining eight modules represent different individual parts of the shop. Of the two Mambots, one helps to integrate phpShop products into the normal Mambo search, the other...