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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

Administration of Products


After this tour of the front end, let's go to the back end. Here phpShop has its completely own agenda. You can find the administration component in Components | mambo-phpShop. This will take you into a separate phpShop administration interface. It consists of several areas: the menu bar from phpShop, the Control Panel (permits access to the most important administrative elements) as well as the tabs (which show the products, logged in customers, orders, new orders, and new customers). In order to keep an overview, the next sections are arranged by tasks instead of being based on menu structures. That way you quickly learn what steps you have to undertake to customize the shop to your needs.

Figure 5.7: PhpShop's administration interface

Categories

Products in phpShop are organized in categories and as usual, every product has to be assigned to a category. Accordingly, your first job is to set up categories. You will find the category administration in Products...