Dec 20, 2006 at 10:49 AM
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Learning Mambo - A Step by Step Tutorial

The newest title from Packt, this book takes you from zero to website in a series of coherant easy to follow step. A well-structured and example-rich tutorial to creating websites using Mambo that is perfect for new Mambo users needing a clear a reassuring guide to this simple and yet powerful PHP and MySQL-based Open Source website content management system.

The book, according to the publisher's website, is a well-structured and example-rich tutorial to creating websites using Mambo that is perfect for new Mambo users needing a clear a reassuring guide to this simple and yet powerful PHP and MySQL-based Open Source website content management system.

This book targets the 4.6 release of Mambo, and takes you through creating an example website.

Beginning with a discussion of the requirements for the example site, the site unfolds as you progress through the chapters, learning more about Mambo, and how to complete the tasks needed to build the site.

Language English
Paperback 300 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date December 2006
ISBN 1904811620
ISBN 13 978-1-904811-62-6
Author(s) Douglas Paterson

  • You'll see the basic configuration options for setting up your site, and learn about Mambo's main elements as you work your way around its web-based administration area.
  • You will learn to use Mambo's powerful Universal Installer to effortlessly install add-ons that are not part of the standard distribution.
  • The book will lead you through the important tasks of creating menu items, and help you understand how these choices structure the pages on your site and ease your visitors' navigation.
  • You will see how to organize and enter your content into Mambo, and how to manage and edit this organization and your pieces of content.
  • You will see how Mambo allows you to set up user accounts with different permissions, including a set of special users who can author or edit content.

The Mambo Community thanks Packt Publishing for their continued support and look forward to the release of more titles.

You can order a copy of this book from this site. Ordering through Mambo News helps to support Mambo.

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