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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

Functions


A small tour through the front end will give you a first overview of phpShop's capabilities. On the front page, a few products that were 'smuggled' through the normal content welcome you to the site. Two modules are involved in this:

  • Latest Products: This displays the most recent products, in other words the products that were added last.

  • Random Products: This, on the other hand, selects products at random and displays them.

Figure 5.2: Modules fetch products from the shop

The online shop itself is accessed via a number of links. All links eventually lead to the product categories of the shop. You can see the respective products behind the category names. The module on the left can display all of the products at the same time.

Figure 5.3: Module for categories or all products

The lists for categories or all products also contain additional information about the products. In the back end you have fine control over what information is faded in and the exact look of the list.

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