Mambo (CMS) |
Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is an open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use. Mambo also includes more advanced features such as page cache to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. It can also automate many tasks such as web indexing for static pages. Mambo can provide RSS (file format) feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, Blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, internationalization and localization, and other possibilities.
Mambo won the the Best Free Software Project of the Year from UK magazine Linux Format in 2004, and the Best Open Source Solution award from the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in 2005.
Mambo is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Joomla started as a fork of Mambo version 4.5.2.
= Requirements =
As of 10 August 2005, the [http://help.mamboserver.com/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=70 minimum requirements for Mambo] consist of:
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 HTTP Server is recommended for running Mambo on Windows.
= Mambo Foundation =
Miro Corporation set up a non-profit [http://www.mambo-foundation.org Mambo Foundation] to maintain Mambo separately from Miro. The core development team felt this was done badly and without appropriate consultation, [http://www.opensourcematters.org have left the project] and have issues the core developers needed to choose another name.
=See also=
*List of content management systems *Comparison of content management systems
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