Mambo (CMS)
Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS ) is an open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use. Mambo also includes more advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. It can also automate many tasks such as web indexing for static pages. Mambo can provide RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs , forums, polls , calendars, website searching, language internationalization , and other possibilities.
Mambo won the the Best Free Software Project of the Year from UK magazine Linux Format in 2004, and the Best Open Source Solution award from the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in 2005.
Mambo is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Joomla started as a fork of Mambo version 4.5.2.
Requirements
As of 10 August 2005, the minimum requirements for Mambo consist of:
- Apache (version 1.3.19 or above)
- MySQL (version 3.23.x or above)
- PHP (version 4.2.x or above)
Mambo is thoroughly tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows NT/2000/XP. Linux or one of the BSD's are recommended but anything else that can run the three pieces of software listed above should work. Additionally, Mambo displays properly in most major browsers : Internet Explorer (version 5.5+), Netscape and Mozilla / Firefox.
PHP must have been compiled with support for MySQL and Zlib in order to successfully run Mambo. There are reports that Mambo works on IIS server but Apache is recommended for running Mambo on Windows.
Mambo Foundation
The Mambo Foundation is a non-profit entity established under the laws of Australia. The Foundation is based on Eclipse and GNOME and is controlled by the members of the Foundation via an elected Board of Directors. The Mambo Foundation's brief is to foster the development of the Mambo system and to shelter the project from threats and mis-use. The Foundation was formed in August of 2005.
Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
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Source code is completely free and released under the GNU GPL Licence. |
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A large and healthy user and developer community. |
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Provides a basic level of content approval for registered users. |
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Online help. |
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Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites. |
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Trash manager |
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Advertising management (banners, etc). |
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Media (images, documents) upload and management. |
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Content display scheduling. |
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Content syndication (RSS). |
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Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's. |
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Internationalisation (interface translation). |
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Content macro language (aka mambots). |
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Advanced and separate system administation system. |
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Advanced package/addon/template deployment system. |
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Simple but powerful template system (written mostly in HTML, no complex templating syntax to learn, just a couple of PHP functions to include). |
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Heirarchial user access groups. |
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Basic visitor statistics. |
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Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support. |
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Simple polls. |
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Content voting/rating system.
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Many more free addons are available at mamboforge.net. Some of these addons include :
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LDAP authentication |
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Extended user profiles |
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Forums |
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Media galleries |
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Document managers |
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Templates |
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Events calendar |
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