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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 Documents


DOCMan organizes documents in Categories. DOCMan 1.2 still had the concept of Subcategories. Version 1.3 permits the nesting of categories, by designating a Parent in the category-editing mode (the same as with menu entries). Each document must be assigned a category. Thus, the first job with a freshly installed DOCMan is always to create a category.

The Components | DOCMan | Management menu command gets you to the control panel with all the options and the already familiar Mambo icons.

Figure 7.2: DOCMan's control panel with the latest news, most current documents, and log files

Categories

You will find the administration for categories and subcategories in Components | DOCMan. The top item is Categories and shows a list with all available categories, as well as the subordinated categories (DOCMan 1.2 had the Subcategories menu command for that). You will see the same attributes for a new DOCMan category as for a normal Mambo category.