Learning Mambo Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Mambo
• What Mambo Can Do for You
• The Visitor Experience
• The Management Experience
• What Exactly is Mambo?
• Component-Based Architecture
• Templated Interface
• User and Permission Management
• Mambo as an Open-Source Content Management System
• Open Source
• Content Management System
• Getting Help in the Mambo Community
• Forks, the Mambo Foundation, and Joomla!
• Zak Springs Golf Club Website
• The Client
• Requirements
• Key Objectives of the Site
• General Functionality of the Site
• Specific Functionality of the Site
• Permissions and Privileges Required
• Might Have... One day
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Setting up the Development Environment
• Downloading Mambo
• Mambo Lite and Complete
• Extracting Mambo
• Putting Mambo Files into the Web Server Root
• Installing Mambo
• Database Setup
• Site Details
• Testing the Installation
• Creating a Database User
• Switching to the New Database User
• Still Having Problems?
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Your Frontpage
• Your Mambo Site
• Menus
• Modules
• Components
• Templates
• Viewing Site Content
• Becoming the Administrator
• Previewing your Site
• Managing the Frontpage
• Publishing Content
• Ordering Lists
• Restricting User Access
• Editing an Article
• You can Check Out Any Time, But You can Never Leave
• Editing with the HTML Editor
• Adding Images
• Adding Links
• Email Addresses, Spam, and Mambots
• Controlling Article Display on the Frontpage
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Configuring the Site
• Your Site, Your Database
• Starting Afresh
• Visiting the Administration Area
• Global Configuration of your Site
• How the Options are Stored
• The Site Tab
• Locale
• Content
• Database
• Configuring the Web Server
• Sending Mail
• Cache
• Visitor Statistics
• Making Mambo-Search Engine Friendly
• Metadata
• Private Messages
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Managing Media, Modules, and Components
• Managing Media
• Managing Modules
• Installed Modules
• Managing Site Modules
• Editing Module Properties
• Adding a New Module Instance to your Site
• Administrator Modules
• Component Management
• Installing Mambo Add-ons with the Universal Installer
• Installing Directly from a URL
• Installing the ExtCal Event Component
• Installing an ExtCal Module from a URL
• Interlude: Web Links
• Creating Web Link Categories
• Creating Web Links
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Managing Menus and Templates
• Menus
• Menu Items
• Menu Item Types
• Content Menu Type
• Components Menu Type
• Links Menu Type
• Miscellaneous Menu Type
• Adding a New Menu Entry
• Add Menu Item Page
• News Feeds Component, Link, Category
• Planning the Zak Springs Menu Structure
• Creating the Bottom Menu
• Assigning the Menu to a Module Position
• The Wrong Homepage?
• Managing Templates
• Assigning Templates to Pages
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Managing Users
• User Groups
• The Special Ones
• Ingredients of a User
• Registering as a User
• Front-End User Goodies
• User Management
• User Details
• Login Module Configuration
• Adding a Logout Link
• Super Administrator Details
• Creating New Users at the Back end
• The Registration Process
• Registration Options
• Managing Other Administrators
• The Administrator
• The Manager
• Summary of Permissions for Back-end Groups
• Zak Springs Users and Groups
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Managing Content
• Organizing Content
• Why Organize Content?
• Planning the Zak Springs Content Structure
• Creating Sections
• Zak Springs Sections
• Section Manager Page
• Creating Categories
• Zak Springs Categories
• Category Manager Page
• Entering Content
• Content Items Manager Page
• Creating a New Content Item
• Adding the Item to a Menu
• Adding Images to the Item
• Keywords and Description for SEO
• Publishing Information
• Controlling How the Item is Displayed
• Deleting Content Items
• The Trash Manager
• Archiving Content Items
• Different Views of Content
• Single Item (Link) View
• Table Views
• Content Category View
• Content Section View
• Assigning Templates to Table Views
• Blog Views
• Static Content
• Managing Sections
• Copying Sections
• Deleting Sections
• Managing Categories
• Copying Categories to Different Sections
• Moving Categories to Different Sections
• Deleting Categories
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Front-End Publishing Workflow
• Authoring Content
• Finding Submitted Content Items
• The Author Notification Process
• Editing Content
• Publishing Content
• Front-End User-Submitted Content
• Adding Links to Submit Content
• Creating a Better Publishing Workflow
• Managing Comments
• Preventing Comment Spam
• Viewing and Approving Comments
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Finishing the Site Off with Other Extensions
• Standard Extensions
• Polls
• News Feeds
• Syndicate
• Banners
• ExtCal Event Component
• User-Submitted Events
• Deleting Events
• ExtCal Modules
• MamboBoard Forums Component
• Forum Organization
• Board Configuration
• Creating Forums
• Adding a Menu Link to the Forums
• zOOm Media Gallery Component
• Creating Galleries
• Adding Images
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Customizing a Template
• What You Need
• Template File Structure
• Creating a New Template
• Changing the Template Details
• The Template File Itself
• No Logic Here
• Links to Images
• No Layout Here
• XHTML Compliance
• Customizing the Page Layout
• Replacing the Header Graphic
• Changing the Page Background and Fonts
• Changing the Main Content Area
• Changing the Background Color of the Columns
• Customizing the Read More Link
• Formatting the Content Items
• Adding the Bottom Menu
• Customizing the Modules
• Spacing Out the Modules
• Changing the Module Headers
• Customizing the Menus
• Changing the Menu Hover Color
• Changing the Menu Item Borders
• Highlighting the Current Menu Item
• Finishing Off
• Creating a Template Package
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Deploying and Running Your Site
• Overview of the Process
• Checking Server Requirements
• File System Permissions
• Uploading the Mambo Code via FTP
• Setting Permissions for configuration.php
• Creating the Database
• Running the Web Installer
• Migrating the Locally Created Database
• Backing Up the Database
• Restoring the Database to the Remote Server
• Replacing the Site Configuration
• Resetting the Permissions of Your Installation
• Rename the Super Administrator Account
• Setting Permissions for Mambo Operations
• Configuration Settings
• Media Uploading
• Caching
• Database Backup Permissions
• Installing Extensions or Templates
• Installing Extensions without ZLIB
• Restricting Access to Folders
• Restricting Access to the Administrator Area
• Summary

• Appendix A: Installing XAMPP

• Index