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Mambo Open Source - Definition and Overview |
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Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is an open source content management system (CMS). It features a page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites and automates many tasks for a static website like web indexing. Mambo can provide RSS feeds, PDF versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, internet forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and other possibilities.
Mambo Open Source requires Apache, PHP and MySQL to work properly.
Features
Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Continue reading for a detailed feature list.
- Source code is completely free.
- A large and healthy user and developer community.
- Provides a basic level of content approval for registered users.
- Online help.
- Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites.
- Trash manager
- Advertising management (banners, etc).
- Media (images, documents) upload and management.
- Content display scheduling.
- Content syndication (RSS).
- Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's.
- Internationalisation (interface translation).
- Content macro language (aka mambots).
- Advanced and separate system administation system.
- Advanced package/addon/template deployment system.
- Simple but powerful template system (written mostly in HTML, no complex templating syntax to learn, just a couple of PHP functions to include).
- Heirarchial user access groups.
- Basic visitor statistics.
- Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support.
- Simple polls.
- Content voting/rating system.null
Many more free addons are available at mamboforge.net. Some of these addons include:
- LDAP authentication
- Extended user profiles
- Forums
- Media galleries
- Document managers
- Templates
- Events calendar
- and many, many more...
Requirements
The base environment for Mambo consists of:
Mambo is thoroughly tested on: Linux, Free BSD, Mac OS X and Windows NT/2000/XP. Linux or one of the BSD's are recommended, but anything else that can run the 3 pieces of software listed above should do it.
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.
Releases
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