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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

Chapter 7. Document Administration with DOCMan

There are two approaches to the topic of document administration: on the one hand, there are large commercial solutions such as Documentum (http://www.documentum.com/) and OpenText (http://www.opentext.de/), which are geared to profoundly influence the processes of an enterprise; on the other hand, there is the simple administration of downloads, which is standard fare with a CMS such as Mambo. A middle approach between these two is being offered by the DOCMan Mambo extension. It administers files and downloads, but, in addition, offers detailed rights administration, which is based on Mambo's user administration.

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Hands On

DOCMan is not just a nice tool for testing and for your own website. We have already successfully installed it for a customer, who wanted a "small" extranet solution. Together with the standard Mambo user administration, we developed quite a powerful tool. All in all, the use of DOCMan seems to us very recommendable...