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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 specify DOCMan's global configuration in the Components | DOCMan | Configuration menu option. This is then written into a configuration file, which is stored in the administrator/components/com_docman folder. This file, however, is not called configuration.php, as currently stated in the configuration interface, but docman.config.php. Since the version we are currently using is, however, a release candidate, this can, of course, change.

There are a number of tabs in the configuration interface. We will briefly touch on these by picking out the ones that require explanation. The variables in the configuration file are named so logically that you will easily find the options again if you should find the need to tweak the configuration file manually on any occasion.

  • General: General contains only one important attribute, the path for the document directory.

  • Frontend: Frontend controls the appearance of the front end. With Section is down? you can deactivate DOCMan and display...