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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

Installation


The starting point for DOCMan is the official project page at http://mamboforge.net/projects/docman/. Download DOCMan's sample data under Files. DOCMan has some other pages as well. An important contact address is the official-sounding http://www.mambodocman.com/ page. There is, however, also a SourceForge project. The current version while writing the book was 1.2.3; version 1.3, which we are already using here since it offers a clearly improved interface, is still in development. There is

also a Mambot available for this version that extends the normal search to DOCMan document names and descriptions. Note that this is not a search that scans the files themselves. DOCMan does not have such a function. In our experience, it would be difficult to find a good quality function like that; you may even have to develop it yourself. Another Mambot enables the insertion of file links with the online editor.

The installation can be done from the Installer component (Components | Install...