Mambo (software)
Mambo ( formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is a free web content management system ( WCMS ). It is based on the server-side scripting language PHP and the MySQL database. Mambo is since June 2008, no longer being actively developed, so that any gaps in security are no longer resolved.
Many users have modules and components for Mambo created, they have usually provided the user community free of charge. In this way Mambo offers a remarkable range of functions that cover virtually all common applications.
Especially in the German-speaking Mambo had a large and active following. In May 2005, businesses and publishers came to Bonn for a conference together, the first and also the penultimate " Mamboday ". But Mambo also had some significance around the world - so he was awarded, for example, the Linux User & Developer Award 2004.
In many user forums can help and patches for the relatively high number of errors found.
Requirements
Mambo requires server-side scripting language PHP and the MySQL database. For ease of use, in addition webspace is recommended with the PHP setting "Safe Mode Off ". To install the activated zlib by PHP required.
Accessibility
Mambo 4.5.x is not optimized in the development branch for accessibility. Public administrations are committed to the future to make their pages more accessible, so that Mambo is there not usable. However, there are a number of developers who Mambo extended so that a barrier-free use - albeit with limited functionality - is possible. Furthermore, there are xMambo with a derivative of Mambo version 4.5 with a focus on accessibility, see also Section derivatives.
Derivatives
XMambo
XMambo is a 2004 spin-off created by Mambo ( version 4.5). Focus of xMambo are compliance with current web standards (XHTML 1.0, CSS, Section 508/WAI ), the absence of table-based web design and thus accessibility. However xMambo is not as extensive in terms of features, design templates, and support from the Mambo community as Mambo in its current version 4.5 r1.0.8. If and when xMambo will be further developed, is currently unclear.
Limbo / LaniusCMS
Limbo was a CMS based on Mambo, however, did not require any database application such as MySQL, but instead saved the contents into a text file (called a FlatDB ). This resulted in small sites to advantages in speed and allowed the execution on webspace do without MySQL database support. The disadvantage was that with no Limbo multilingual websites could be created.
Limbo is no longer being developed. A fork of the project called DrakeCMS. 2008, the project has been renamed to LaniusCMS and used ( and extended ) continue to feature a FlatDB ( here: GladiusDB and SQLite). With LaniusCMS also multilingual websites could be created and maintained.
Joomla!
Joomla! is a community project, which emerged after a dispute over commercial marketing and community involvement from Mambo and worn by many of the original developers of the Mambo.
On 4 August 2005, the company Miro founded as an initiator of the Mambo project, the "Mambo Foundation ", in the future, the developer should occur, and should coordinate and fund the work. It developed a discussion in the community, whether this step was left without the developer community adequate participation.
Many of the core developers of Mambo felt ignored and then joined the newly established Foundation Open Source Matters together. Since the company Miro had the naming rights to Mambo, the brought together in Open Source Matters developers a project splitting ( engl. fork ) was performed, and this cleavage under the name Joomla! developed independently of Mambo.
MiaCMS
MiaCMS is a fork of Mambo version 4.6.3. On 12 May 2008 was released as the first version MiaCMS 4.6.4.
Mambo User Groups ( MUGs )
The so-called MUGs are local groups of Mambo users and developers who come together regularly to exchange information on Mambo to plan projects and of course, to know each other and thus to maintain the social component of open source software.