Doing the Mambo!

smcculloch posted on August 16, 2005 20:20

So I checked out Mambo today. An open source content management system for PHP.

It took me a while to get it going, but I ended up using the following to make my job a whole lot easier:-

MSAS - All in One Installer (Apache/PHP/MySql). You can get it here.
MySql Control Center

I particularly liked the stepped process of installation for Mambo, it makes you review the license and pre-requisites (which it auto-detects) before installing. Very Nice!

I'll be making note of any things DotNetNuke could use.

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# rhuber

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:38 PM

One thing that makes me envious of mambo to just how polished the sites & controls look from a presentation standpoint. Not to say you can't achieve great results with top notch skinning in DNN... but I've rarely if ever seen quite the same polish on a DNN site. All in good time though... I hope.

# broomm

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:24 AM

I've been using Mambo for around 3 years now and have to say it's one of the best open source portals I've seen. A very professional administration area, really simple skinning, and a large number of modules readily available. Installation is really slick too.

There's also a community development and distribution environment at http://mamboforge.net for anyone developing modules and I've found developing modules for Mambo to be more straightforward than with DNN.

# smcculloch

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:49 AM

I like the consistent style to all modules, but don't like the options being in the right hand corner, seems a long way to move the mouse :)

# pspeth

Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:21 PM

Breaking news regarding Mambo.
Literally... They are breaking up.

http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/08/18/1413218.shtml

# rhuber

Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:15 PM

It's funny, I just spotted that here: http://www.netshinesoftware.com/the-death-of-mambo.html
...and came by to comment on it. At first I thought maybe it was a rumor, until I checked it out on the mambo forums. Mambo is no longer Mambo.

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