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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

Configuration


You can find the Simpleboard configuration under Components | Simpleboard Forum. An interface with its own control panel can be opened there. To go back at any time, use the Back button or the Mambo menus, which are still shown.

Figure 6.3: The start point is the Simpleboard administration interface

For a change, you should first have a look at the bottom row. If you are starting without an exact conception of your future forum, we recommend that you load the example data delivered with Simpleboard into the database using Load Sample Data. We will do this here, so that at least one category is set up.

You won't need the Upgrade Database to version: 1.1.0 Stable button after a normal installation, since you have already installed this version. It is intended for the upgrade—the official website, as we have already mentioned, has the information for that and can be reached from the control panel by means of the Support WebSite icon.

Setting up the Forum

The most important attributes...