An advanced level guide to customizing and extending

• Create custom layouts, modules, Mambots, set up an e-commerce store, and more
• Make your site multilingual, accessible, and optimized for speed and search engines
• Master DOCMAN, the document manager for Mambo, to turn your Mambo site into a dynamic repository of shared documents and files
• Avoid common security traps and pitfalls and learn how attackers think

In Detail

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.

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.

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.

What you will learn from this book?

Approach

Using a highly graphical, practical style the experienced authors show you how to get the most out of Mambo’s more advanced features and abilities.

Who this book is written for?

Mastering Mambo is the book for anybody who has developed a Mambo web site, and wants to expand what their site can do and make the most of this powerful content management system.

It is not a tutorial in the Mambo basics. Nor is it a comprehensive reference to Mambo’s workings. Instead, it shows you how to employ Mambo’s most powerful and useful features in your own site or intranet.

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