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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 is meant to be used for simple and complex websites. Some of the most popular features are:

  • Source code is completely open source.
  • 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).
  • Separate system administation system.
  • 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).
  • Hierarchical user access groups.
  • Basic visitor statistics.
  • Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support.
  • Simple polls.
  • Content voting/rating system.

Many more free add-ons are available at mamboforge.net. Some of these add-ons include:

  • LDAP authentication.
  • Extended user profiles.
  • Internet forums.
  • Media galleries.
  • Document managers.
  • Templates.
  • Events calendar.

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.

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