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Mambo makes the difficult parts of building and running a
high-powered web site easy. That’s why so many people use it! But if
you have never used a content management system before, it also
seems to make a lot of easy things difficult. These tips are
designed for someone who doesn’t know anything about content
management systems. I’d never heard of one before installing Mambo.
If you’re like me, you’ll find these instructions VERY helpful. I
don’t explain anything to you that you could see by poking around
the administration page – go to the official help site for that.
What I will tell you is how to think about your site before
designing it with Mambo, and how to get from point A (“I want to …”)
to point B (“here’s how”).
This tutorial changes occasionally, but here is a list of the
chapters so far:
1. How to think about content management
2. How to organize your site
3. Designing the look of your site
4. Modules and pages
5. Adding text and images
6. Linking
7. Blogs; Your front page
8. Modules, Components, and Mambots
9. Where is it?
Note: If you want newsfeeds, polls, or blogs on your site, Mambo is
great! But you must expect to spend time learning it. Just remember
that the most difficult part is the beginning, and you won't have
any part of your site up quickly, even with the best tutorials. But
speaking of the best tutorials, you should also go to this thread to
see a list of other tutorials that have been written for Mambo:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=42100
Next tip: How to think about content management.
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Talking Anna's Tip #1: How to think about content management
Most people who use the web are used to thinking about web sites in
terms of pages and how they are linked to each other. Each page
contains static content – once you create the page, it doesn’t
change (until the web designer changes it). You might think of your
site as having a tree structure: the home page links by menu to six
sub pages, the “articles” sub page contains links to ten article
pages, etc.
Mambo is organized differently because much of what will appear on
your site is dynamic – it changes based on visitor input, newsfeeds,
or other members adding content to the site. Dynamic content is
updated whenever the visitor opens or refreshes the page. There is
NO WAY in Mambo to look at what’s on a particular page (until you
publish it on your site), so you need to think about it differently.
(For more about pages, see tip #4.)
Each page of your site will contain various blocks of content (these
blocks are called Positions). You set the layout for pages with a
Template (more about Templates in tip #3), including the placement
of blocks on the page as well as fonts, colors, & backgrounds. Then
you place modules in the blocks (more about Modules in tip #4).
Finally, you add content and assign it to the main body of your
pages (actually you will assign it to menu items, but just think
about them as pages).
Okay, enough about content management. Let’s get to your site!
Next tip: How to organize your site.
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Talking Anna's Tip #2: How to organize your site
Okay - bear with me. I know you want to get something up and running
right away, but that's not what Mambo is about. There are things you
must know before you can get even one page up. But don't despair -
once you set all the parameters for your site, putting really cool
things on it is a piece of cake!
The current version of Mambo has a static hierarchy: you have to
divide your content into three levels, no more, no less. Version 5.0
should have dynamic folder hierarchy – if you want just one level,
you can have it. If you want ten, you can have that too. But for
now, you will have to use the three level system: Sections,
Categories, and Content.
Sections are big containers. They hold Categories. Categories are
little containers; they hold Content. All the text & images you want
to appear on a page are Content. The only catch is that you can’t
create content without having a Section and Category for it to live
in.
Imagine a filing system: sections are drawers, categories are
folders, and content is pieces of paper. If you had all your pieces
of paper lying around in your room, that would be a mess. If you had
them in folders but the folders were lying all over the floor, that
wouldn’t be much better. If you had them thrown in a drawer with no
folders to organize them, that wouldn’t be so great either. So to
keep things organized, you need to put all your papers (content)
inside folders (categories) inside drawers (sections).
The other nice thing about having sections and categories is that
you can assign different templates to them. So anything appearing in
the “News” section could have two columns instead of three, leaving
out the position that houses login and polls (for example). Then
when some other member of your organization adds a news item, it
will look like all the other news items and not like the product
features pages.
Note: After all that about having to have sections and categories,
there is a way to create content that is not in a section or
category – it’s called “static content.” This doesn’t mean static as
in static vs dynamic, it just means that it is not assigned to a
section or category. But remember that if you do that you won’t be
able to create more content that looks like it (shares its
template). And I read somewhere that you can’t place static content
on the front page.
So think about how your site will be organized, and whether you want
different parts of the site to have different looks. Then force it
(shove! push!) into the Mambo 4.5 system of Sections and Categories
(and wait for Mambo 5.0 – oh happy day!).
Now on to Templates.
Next tip: Designing the look of your site.
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Talking Anna's Tip #3: Designing the look of your site
Templates determine the look of your site, or of different sections
of your site. If you go to the Template page of your admin (Site ->
Template Manager -> Site Templates), you will see a few templates
listed. Try clicking on one (the buttons to the far left, not the
template name) and then clicking the “default” icon in the toolbar.
Then browse to your site to see how the template changed the look of
your site.
What is a Template? Templates are sets of files that determine the
look of your site. The main file is “index.php,” which includes html
code for layout elements like tables, your logo, etc, and inserts
php code for dynamic elements. The next most important file is the
style sheet or css file, which determines fonts, colors, and borders
for each element in the site.
Check out this visual of your “index.php” file:
http://www.annacallahan.com/images/template_layout.gif
“header.jpg” is your logo. “body” is a block that will contain
content. The orange blocks in the figure are Positions, which you
can place in table cells. Remember that these Positions can contain
any number of modules, and those modules can be turned on and off .
(Imagine that in the “top” position you have a search module and a
date module, for example, and in the “left” position you have a menu
and a login.) When you make a template, you’re just setting aside
the space on the page by inserting a position. The positions are
placed in the table cells of your website with php code that looks
like this: <?php mosLoadModules ( 'left' ); ?>
The style sheet. Your template also has a style sheet that controls
the fonts, colors, borders, etc. of each element of the page. Here
are some explanations of the naming convention:
for download - http://www.mambohut.com/index.php?op &filecatid=107.
on the web - http://www.mambonotes.com/content/view/30/101/
with visuals - http://www.mamboos.de/Mambo_CSS_Guide/
Well, that’s the basic explanation of templates. The following are
specific instructions on downloading or designing templates:
Downloading templates. I haven’t used other people’s templates, but
I’m sure there are lots of places you can get them. Start at
http://mambohut.com/.
Designing templates. Mambo Templates & Tutorials.
If you want to design your own and use Dreamweaver, I recommend this
tutorial: www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/. It will guide you
through downloading a Dreamweaver extension that allows you to
design templates there. It also recommends you download MSAS, the
Mambo Stand Alone Server, which essentially puts a mini-server with
MySQL & Apache right on your computer so that you can see your
template before uploading it to the web. If you come across a more
current or better or shorter tutorial, please let me know!)[/i]
Now that you’ve got a template, we’re going to put some modules in
the positions you just created.
Next tip: Modules and pages.
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Talking Anna's Tip #4: Modules and pages
If you want an explanation of what Modules are, see tip #8. This tip
is to introduce them to you, since you have your positions lined up
in your template. Modules are little magic boxes that contain
dynamic content. Go to Modules -> Site Modules in your Mambo admin.
Here you will see a list of the modules that come with your Mambo
installation.
You will notice that all of your menus are modules. Your login form
is a module – it lets users sign in so that they can update or add
content right from the website. Latest News is a module that gives
links to the most recently added news items (content in the News
category). Pretty much anything that involves linking or user input
is a module. And there are tons of modules you can download and
install, so you’re not limited to the ones that you have now (see
tip #8 for more info).
Look across the table till you get to the Position column – this
tells you what position (what block) that module is in (Positions
are covered in tip #3). If you click on one of the module names to
edit it, you will see an option to change the position it is in
(under Module Details). Go ahead and move these around into
different positions and go see it live on your site. Pretty cool,
no?
You can also turn modules on or off on specific pages. Remember, the
position only saves space for the modules, it doesn’t control
whether modules show or not.
Pages. Are you sitting down? Because I’m about to lay one on ya.
Ready? Web pages don’t exist. At least not in Mambo. When you think
you’re looking at a web page, Mambo thinks you’re looking at a menu
item. In fact, there’s no way in Mambo to see what is on a
particular page, where the positions are, what modules are in what
positions, what content shows, etc. Because Mambo doesn’t believe in
pages! Frankly, I think it’s silly – the page is the fundamental
unit of the web. But re-orient your brain, because Mambo is plugging
its ears and singing “la la la la.”
To turn modules on or off in specific pages, you have to link them
to menu items. Fortunately that is right in the Edit Site Module
page (Modules -> Site Modules, then click on a module to edit it.)
There is a tab on the right called Locations, and you can highlight
as many Menu Item Links as you want. This does mean that you can’t
control modules until you’ve linked your content, which we won’t do
for another two tips! But there you have it, that’s Mambo.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for! Let’s add content.
Next tip: Adding text and images.
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Talking Anna's Tip #5: Adding text and images
When I say “adding text & images” I’m talking about the central part
of the page, not any menu bars, not any of the boxes on the side
(like polls, sign-up forms, or news items). Just the central content
pane (the “mos_mainbody” you placed in your template). You already
organized your site Mambo-style (tip #2), so now you want to create
content in the Categories you already have (which are inside
Sections you already have).
TinyMCE. Mambo comes with a wysiwyg editor called TinyMCE. To
activate it, got to Mambots -> Site Mambots. Unpublish the “No
WYSIWYG Editor” and publish “TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor.” If you know
html, I highly recommend putting the TinyMCE editor in “advanced”
mode. From Mambots -> Site Mambots, click on the TinyMCE WYSIWYG
Editor. On the right, under parameters, you should see a
Functionality option – basic means you see no code, while advanced
gives you the option of editing the html code directly (and gives
you a few more editing icons). I really *highly* recommend the
advanced option because of bugs in TinyMCE (for example, hitting B
will bold text, but not unbold it, so I once had to go into the html
and delete about 57 <strong></strong> tags from a frustrated user).
You can add text & images by adding content (Content -> All Content
Items [or choose the category]). The page title will appear at the
top of that page. Page alias will appear in the url (if you have
sef404 or another search engine friendly component). Your text is
split into two panes, the “intro text” and the “main text”. Here's
RedSoxCoder's explanation of the two panes:
There are two panes for two reasons: First is the most common one,
which is that you can use it to split the article in two parts:
intro part for the front page and the real article that links to the
'read more' link, which is the intro + the main content merged
together.
BUT there is also an option that lets you split these to all
together. That means that you could use the intro part for a
seperate piece of text on your front page and the main part for the
real article.
Example: You have a site that reviews movies and you have various
people writting reviews, but one person editing the front page
content. You could write a frontpage(intro) text like "Our critic
Mr. X went to see movie XYZ and wrote an exclusive review for our
site .read more"
And when you click read more, you'll get the actual review.
Just select 'hide intro text' on the parameters.
Very exciting option that gives much more functionality to the two
panes concept.
Thanks, RedSoxCoder! (Go Sox!)
Images. I once spent two hours just trying to place an image in the
content. I couldn’t find it anywhere in the Mambo help pages; no one
would answer my question in the forum; everything I tried didn’t
work. So I will save you that pain – read on!
First you need to upload your images into the Media Manager. It’s
under Site -> Media Manager, and it’s pretty obvious how to use it
to upload files. Just remember that while the “browse” button is
below the files icons, the “upload” button is above in the toolbar.
Same with creating directories – create below, hit the “create”
button above.
Once you have your images uploaded, you can insert them from any
content item. Things not to do:
• Don’t use TinyMCE to insert pictures. To do that you have to go
back to the Media Manager, get the address, copy/paste it into the
box, and in my version there’s a bug, so once you do all that the
html code is garbled and you have to go into the code and fix it.
• Don’t try to drag and drop images from the “images” tab into your
wysiwyg editor. Though this appears to work, what you see is not
what you will get. It only inserts thumbnails into the content, so
when you look at the actual page on your site, tiny little images
will appear instead of the regular image.
There is a MAGIC BUTTON that you have to click for anything to work.
That magic button is – not in the editor, where you might think, and
not in the “images” tab either. Below the editor, there are two
little flowers, one with an “I” and one with a “P”. When you mouse
over them, there is no help text to tell you what they’re for. Click
on the “I”. It will insert the following text into your content: {mosimage}.
Once you do that, the “images” panel on the right is suddenly
useful! Thank the gods. Now go to that panel and find your image.
When you click on the “add” button, that image is listed below under
“Content Images.”
Each time you click the MAGIC “I” button, {mosimage} will appear in
the text editor. It will not show the image, or tell you which image
is there. If you have more than one image, the images will display
in the order they are listed under “Content Images.”
What is {mosimage}? As I understand it, mos_image is a mambot that
places images in the content. For more on mambots, see tip #8.
According to tudorilisoi, there is also another mambot called
mosthumb for doing this that you might want to use -- for more info,
visit his post at http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthr
412#post243412
So now you have content – great! Now on to linking up your pages.
Next tip: Linking.
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Talking Anna's Tip #6: Linking
There are two ways to link from page to page: menus & links. In most
web design (whether you use a wysiwyg editor or not), it’s easier to
link text or images to another web page than it is to set up a menu.
As with everything else, Mambo is the opposite. Menus are pretty
easy -- linking, not so much.
Menus. Menus are modules (for more about modules, see tips #4 or #8
). A few menus come with your Mambo installation (main, top, other,
and more). Since they are modules, you can place them in positions
in your template. One thing to remember about menus is that you
can’t create a link until you’ve created content.
You can add menu items (links) from the content, or from the menu
manager. From a content item (Content -> Content Managers -> All
Content Items [or choose your cagetory], then click on the content
item to edit), there is a tab on the right called Link to Menu. It
will let you choose any or all of the menus, and tell it what words
you want to appear in the menu. I think this is the easiest way to
link menus to content you have created.
You can add or remove links from a menu (Menu -> [choose menu]).
Remove links by trashing them (don’t worry, it doesn’t delete your
content, just the link). Add links with the “new” button on the
toolbar. It will give you a number of choices that determine both
what type of content you are linking to and how you want that
content to appear.
New Menu Items: How - What
The list looks like this:
Blog - Content Category
Blog - Content Section
Link - Contact Item
etc.
The first word tells how it will appear on the page. A blog page
contains multiple pieces of content, but only shows the "intro" text
of each item (with a link to see the full item on another page). A
link will go directly to whatever item you specify. A table contains
multiple pieces of content in table format. A separator doesn't link
to anything. And see this thread for info on wrappers (thanks DRD!):
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=43536
The second word tells what will appear on the page. Content or
Section, outside url or newsfeed, contact item or static content or
newsfeed. (So many options!)
Before you make too many menus, remember that menus are modules, and
that Mambo already has a lot of built-in modules. If you want to
build a menu for news items, for example, then stop! It's already
done. The "Latest News" module displays links to the most recent n
content items in your News categoy. And you don't have to do
anything but put that module in one of the positions in your
template (tips #3 and #4).
What if I want cool rollover buttons in my menus instead of this
boring text? Well, I haven't tried it yet, but I understand that
this component will do just that:
http://mamboforge.net/projects/swmenu/
Linking. If you want to link text or images in content to another
page in your site, the first thing to do is to get one of the "nice
url" components. I recommend SEF404:
http://mamboforge.net/projects/sef404/. If you look at the web
addresses of your pages, you'll notice that they have non-intuitive
names ending in something like /view/25/64/. SEF404 will make all of
your page addresses nice, based on the title of your content and
category (or section).
Now that you have "nice" urls, you will have to copy and paste. Open
your browser and go to the page on your site you would like to link
to. Highlight and copy the url. Now go to your Mambo admin, and go
to the content you want to link from (Content -> All Content Items
[or choose category], and edit the content item). Highlight the text
or image you want to link, and click the "link" button in the
editor. Paste the url in the popup box, and voila, your text is
linked. (Hey, let me know if there is an easier way to do this….)
You should be able to actually make a site now. Yay!! But wait –
there’s more….
Next tip: Blogs; Your front page
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Talking Anna's Tip #7: Blogs; Your front page
Someone recently asked me for more specifics about making blogs, so
here is my description:
Blogs
Mambo can create a blog out of any category or section you choose.
Blog simply means that the page displays the titles and intro text
to items in a category (or section), and links to full text. And you
can make any page a blog.
1. Create a category called "Thoughts" (or whatever name you want).
See tip 2 for more info on categories.
2. To create the blog page, create a menu link. (Remember, in Mambo
there are no pages - just menu items [tip 4].) Edit your main menu
and click on New. It will give you a bunch of items (see tip 6,
linking) - pick Blog - Content Category. Then name your page and
choose the "Thoughts" category. Don't forget to look at the
Parameters tab in your menu item to control things like how many
columns to use for the intros & other useful stuff.
Your Front Page
[I just read this on the forums and thought it was very helpful.
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=42870 Here it is in
mperkel’s words:]
Understanding Blogs
One mistake I made was to assume that the front page manager had
something to do with the front page - it doesn't. Mambo has the
object called a "blog" and the center of the front page is one of
these blogs.
The "blog" is a very unusual and powerful object once you understand
it. By default the first object in the blog is full width (one
column) and the next 4 object are 1/2 width (two column). After that
- there are links to the next blog articles and pages of clusters of
more blog items.
This blog thing is totally customizable and if you want to actually
use it as a blog what you do is change the settings. You do this by
going into the menus and selecting the mainmenu. Then you configure
it by changing the leading, intro, and colums settings. I just put
in 999 into leading to get a one column vertical blog.
A blog also points to a collection of content items. There are both
sections and categories that are collections. So a blog is
associated with a list and you create the list of the content as a
section and then have a blog object pointing to the list and put the
blog object into the main menu and you have a new blog.
The Front Page
Whatever the first item in your main menu is - this item becomes
your front page. Once you understand this it eliminates a lot of
confusion. If you choose something for the first menu item other
than the standard entry then the "front page manager" is totally
useless because what is says is on the front page isn't - and what
is on the front page isn't listed in the front page manager.
Thanks, mperkel!
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Talking Anna's Tip #8: Modules, Components, and Mambots
Mambo is designed to be expanded. Though it has a lot of built-in
features, there are hundreds of others that you can download and
incorporate into your Mambo admin.
What is the difference between Modules, Components, and Mambots?
Modules are simple plug-ins that present information on your site.
Menus are modules. Polls are modules. The user sign-in is a module.
Modules can be added to Positions, and will appear on your web site.
Components are applications. They add functionality to your Mambo
admin. So when you want to add newsletter functionality to your
Mambo site, you will probably install both a Component and a Module.
When you add a component, you'll see it under the Components menu,
and when you go there, you'll see a whole new set of admin pages
designed to help you set the features of that component.
Mambots are small, task-oriented functions that intercept content
before it is displayed and manipulate it in some way. Mambo provides
a number of Mambots in the core distribution. For example, mosimage
converts {mosimage} tags to html img tags; mospagebreak provides
pagination and table of contents functionality. You're less likely
to need a mambot than a component/module set.
Add-on is a non-technical term for cool stuff that doesn’t come with
the Mambo installation. Add-ons usually consist of both a component
and a module, but are sometimes just modules, or might include a
mambot.
Where can I get add-ons? Mambo has a whole site dedicated to them:
http://mamboforge.net/. Unfortunately, the descriptions of them are
generally poor, and it's hard to find the right one or compare
different add-ons. If only they would require all add-ons to include
a good description and a features list and how about a rating
system? (Hint, hint.)
I was reading one of the forums and came across a great list of of
“must have” add-ons. This list is taken from this thread written by
beat, with a few additions of my own: http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthr
0&page=4&pp=10
• Clean URLs: 404sef
• Nice user registration and management: Community Builder (written
by mambojoe)
• Downloads management: DOCMan (Remository seems also good)
• Newsletters: YaNC (although simpler ones exist also)
• Automatic site-mapping: SiteMap
• Nice forms: easy forms: Art*Forms, complex forms: FacileForms
• bulletin board: easy and best integrated: SimpleBoard (for more
heavy duty traffic: Simple Machines Forum and phpBB are becoming
better integrated with Mambo currently. vBulletin seems not easy to
configure and integrate but powerful, it runs also this site).
• E-commerce: phpShop or mosCommerce : integration of later moves
fast now, making it soon a good choice
• Events management and sheduling on calendars: Events Calendar.
• Drop-down menus with images & more: SWMenu.
http://www.swonline.biz/
• Insert multimedia objects like video, audio & more: MosMedia.
http://www.ag-solutions.net/content/view/23/45/
• Private messaging:MyPMS open-source
• MultiLingual support: MambelFish and future Mambo 4.5.3.
• Photos galleries: good question candidates are: RSgallery,
Menalto Gallery 2 (seems best, mambo integration on its way), zOOm
(nice integration, but no news on dev.&debugging?).
Thanks beat!
Now, if you have gotten this far and are still frustrated with
Mambo’s peculiarities, I’m hoping the next chapter will answer some
of your questions.
Next tip: Where is it??
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Talking Anna's Tip #9: Where is it??
This tip is designed to help you find things that are on your page,
you’re looking right at them, but can’t find where they exist in
Mambo. If you’ve read the other chapters and are still looking for
the contact page or how to change the look of a category page, this
is the chapter for you.
Contact Us. When you install Mambo, the main menu comes with a link
called Contact Us. What displays on the Contact Us page is the
information in your Contacts (go to Components -> Contacts -> Manage
Contacts to create or edit contacts). If you want to show only one
contact instead of the list of all contacts, you can create a link
to only one contact.
To create a contact link, open your main menu (or whatever menu
you’d like the link to be in) and click “new” in the toolbar. On the
next screen, choose Link – Contact Item. It will then let you choose
which contact to link to. The information for this contact will
appear on the Contact Us page as well as this link.
If you want to change the form part of your contact page, you'll
have to install a form component (such as Art*Forms). It will allow
you to add various form items (text input, radio buttons, dropdown
lists) & process them in various ways.
Category & Section pages. If you create menu links to categories or
sections, how can you alter those pages? You must remember that in
Mambo, there are no pages – only menu items. So go to the menu item
and change the parameters there. For example, if you have a link to
a category page or section page, Mambo automatically displays
certain search options (the “Filter” “Order” and “Display #” you see
above the item list). You can show or hide those by going to the
menu the link is in, editing that link, and going to the Parameters
tab.
Please let me know what things you have wasted time looking for
because they’re in some non-intuitive place – I’ll post it here!
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To keep this excellent tutorial guide as succinct as possible, can
you post all feedback, praise, suggestion here:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=48065
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Hello All!
I hope this has been helpful to you. I'm sure there are many
unanswered questions and other ways in which this tutorial could be
improved. So this tip is a thinly-veiled (or is it even veiled at
all?) attempt to get your help in improving them.
If you have any suggestions for changes or tips of your own, please
post them in this thread:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=48065
I will of course thank you in the tips for any contributions!
In general, the forums are a great way to get help with Mambo. It is
always best to search first before posting -- someone else may have
answered it already. If you can't find the answer, post a thread. I
must admit that I don't find the division of forums to be very
intuitive. Almost all of my questions fall into either General
Questions or Operating Mambo: Administration Questions. But often
you can find the right forum through your search (just look at where
similar posts have been placed).
Most importantly, if you come across any thread that you can help
with, help! Even if it is old, other people may still be searching
for that information.
So let me know what other general questions you have, and contribute
to the Mambo forums. The easier you make Mambo for others, the more
others will want to help you too!
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when is version 5 expected????
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jazztpt
The current version of Mambo has a static hierarchy: you have to
divide your content into three levels, no more, no less. Version 5.0
should have dynamic folder hierarchy – if you want just one level,
you can have it. If you want ten, you can have that too. But for
now, you will have to use the three level system: Sections,
Categories, and Content.
do we have multilevel in current version now ????
Version 5.0 should have dynamic folder heirarchy. The current
version is 4.5.2. So no, multilevel is not in the current version,
it will be in 5.0.
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Hey Anna,
Great tutorials but I have a question being new to Mambo ..how
does one put content items somewhere other than the mainbody i.e. in
the other positions left or right or user1 etc..??
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Hi Guilliam,
I just checked out OSM, and it looks great. I'm happy to post my
stuff there if people want it, but there doesn't seem to be a
particular place for it. I don't really know what's going on feel
free to let me know what's best.
Thanks!
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hi pixel.. pls move into OSM. please check the URL in my signature..
welcome aboard *ambo btw!
@jazztpt,.. haven tseen you in he new home yet.. we are eagerly
waiting for you there!
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Hi,
Your "Tips & Tricks" really gives newcommers to Mambo a jumpstart.
However I would appriciate if you could help me out in creating a
sub-menu to the menu items in the main menu module.
Thanks and regards,
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http://mamboforge.net/projects/sef404/. If you look at the web
addresses of your pages, you'll notice that they have non-intuitive
names ending in something like /view/25/64/. SEF404 will make all of
your page addresses nice, based on the title of your content and
category (or section).
Now that you have "nice" urls, you will have to copy and paste. Open
your browser and go to the page on your site you would like to link
to. Highlight and copy the url. Now go to your Mambo admin, and go
to the content you want to link from (Content -> All Content Items
[or choose category], and edit the content item). Highlight the text
or image you want to link, and click the "link" button in the
editor. Paste the url in the popup box, and voila, your text is
linked. (Hey, let me know if there is an easier way to do this….)
sure open as admin the HTML-Code with TinyMCE and insert the
link
as html <a href . .etc like you know it from html
sure its not userfriendly, but a fast way to insert a link.
btw mambo developers should fix this behaviour, cuz I think
this is not the way the framework wants to run LOL
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Thumbs up An easier way to create sub menues
Hi I found an easier way than the one you describe.
Create your new Content e.g. Static Content via 'Content - Static
Content Manager' and then 'New'.
At your right hand side you find the Tab 'Link to Menu'. Select
'Main Menu' and then type the name of the Sub Menu of your choice.
Press the 'Lin to Menu' button and you will hopefully get a message
that your sub has been created (will create an new Menu item at top
level at the Main Menu despite you type a name that already exists
)
Go to the 'Menu - Main Menu' and select to edit the new menu item.
Under 'Details' you find 'Parent Item'. Change 'Parent Item' to the
top level menu item you would like your sub to appear under.
And voila !
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Hi,
Kind of giving up on Mambo here SOME reasons
Note: If you want newsfeeds, polls, or blogs on your site, Mambo is great!
But you must expect to spend time learning it.
I don't need newsfeeds nor blogs time learning it? not good !
Each page of your site will contain various blocks of content (these
blocks are called Positions). You set the layout for pages with a
Template (more about Templates in tip #3), including the placement
of blocks on the page as well as fonts, colors, & backgrounds. Then
you place modules in the blocks (more about Modules in tip #4).
Finally, you add content and assign it to the main body of your
pages
WHAT are we talking about ? no existing word in English is used AS
IS, but they change the meaning? Keep reading
Sections are big containers. They hold Categories. Categories are little
containers; they hold Content. All the text & images you want to
appear on a page are Content.
and
there is a way to create content that is not in a section or category –
it’s called “static content.” This doesn’t mean static as in static
vs dynamic, it just means that it is not assigned to a section or
category.
WHAT are we talking about ?
Modules are little magic boxes that contain dynamic content.
WHAT are we talking about ?
I once spent two hours just trying to place an image in the content.
First you need to upload your images into the Media Manager.
Just remember that while the “browse” button is below the files icons, the
“upload” button is above in the toolbar. Same with creating
directories – create below, hit the “create” button above.
Don’t use TinyMCE to insert pictures. To do that you have to go back to
the Media Manager, get the address, copy/paste it into the box, and
in my version there’s a bug, so once you do all that the html code
is garbled and you have to go into the code and fix it.
• Don’t try to drag and drop images from the “images” tab into your
wysiwyg editor. Though this appears to work, what you see is not
what you will get. It only inserts thumbnails into the content, so
when you look at the actual page on your site, tiny little images
will appear instead of the regular image.
There is a MAGIC BUTTON that you have to click for anything to work. That
magic button is – not in the editor, where you might think, and not
in the “images” tab either. Below the editor, there are two little
flowers, one with an “I” and one with a “P”. When you mouse over
them, there is no help text to tell you what they’re for. Click on
the “I”.
WHAT are we talking about ?
This introduction has been GREAT and save me many many many days of
horror Thanks Anna!
thanks God there is simple HTML !
was very intrigued with your reply.. and hope youre still
smiling,.. for personally i cant stop laughing my ar$e out on the
floor when i browsed your sig.
° http://JorgeVismara.net - digitally captured emotions
° http://Pelourinho.com - about the Brazilian culture
are you open for improvements and/or opinion from community members
for those websites in your signature?
and thanks God indeed YOU FOUND simple HTML...!
no wonder.
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Hi Guilliam,
feel free to comment/critize/apologize/energize/oranyotherize you
want...
Pelourinho.com is about 10 years old... accumulated more than 80,000
files in it, so it's nearly impossible to make reasonable changes
without a huge time investment that I don't have.
JorgeVismara.net is only 2 years old and is very simple, both the
purpose and the content... so I wonder if what I want to add is
worth the time to learn and to implement it.
so... you were saying?
Quote:
Originally Posted by guilliam
hello jorge! indeed keep smiling..
was very intrigued with your reply.. and hope youre still smiling,..
for personally i cant stop laughing my ar$e out on the floor when i
browsed your sig.
° http://JorgeVismara.net - digitally captured emotions
° http://Pelourinho.com - about the Brazilian culture
are you open for improvements and/or opinion from community members
for those websites in your signature?
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OT:
(with your indulgence ms anna for this off topic post)
Quote:
Originally Posted by jvismara
Hi Guilliam,
feel free to comment/critize/apologize/energize/oranyotherize you
want...
Pelourinho.com is about 10 years old... accumulated more than 80,000
files in it, so it's nearly impossible to make reasonable changes
without a huge time investment that I don't have.
JorgeVismara.net is only 2 years old and is very simple, both the
purpose and the content... so I wonder if what I want to add is
worth the time to learn and to implement it.
so... you were saying?
oh well hello jeorge, as i were saying,.. there's no point to
discuss on your stand,.. youre not open anyway.
you talk so much about "time investment" while you overlook the ease
of use with CMS and oversaw the potential "investment" per se.
no point to argue. period.
by the way, please avoid OFF TOPIC posts.
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Maybe a dumb question. But before I'm going to put some time in
something that isn't possible I want to ask you if it's possible to
put this site: www.taksonline.nl in the mambo cms. (especially the
menu)
Thnx! Vincent
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Maybe a dumb question. But before I'm going to put some time in
something that isn't possible I want to ask you if it's possible to
put this site: www.taksonline.nl in the mambo cms. (especially the
menu)
Thnx! Vincent
yes is possible and facile
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Hi Anna,
I appreciate the time you put in helping us newbies get informed
about Mambo. I read through your tips, searched the forums and
bought a new book, "Building Websites with Mambo" but have not been
able to get an answer to a basic question: If I download a Mambo
template and want to modify the Logo (because my client is not
Mambo) and replace it with something more specific to his site, how
do I go about doing that?
Am I limited to writing code? I saw your reference to the
Dreamweaver MX Tutorial for new templates. Is that what I need if I
want to design something specific for my client? i must be missing
something huge somewhere.. Thanks for taking time to help. I am
really stuck!
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Quote:
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basic question: If I download a Mambo template and want to modify
the Logo (because my client is not Mambo) and replace it with
something more specific to his site, how do I go about doing that?
I haven't had to do this in a while, but my recollection of it is
this. You will need to go into the index.php file and change the
name of the image file to the new one you want to use. Then open the
templateDetails.xml and change the name there as well. You can then
ftp those two files back to their original locations.
Hope this helps,
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Question?
You Wrote:
You will need to go into the index.php file and change the name of
the image file to the new one you want to use. Then open the
templateDetails.xml and change the name there as well. You can then
ftp those two files back to their original locations.
I am currently working directly on a remote server not on my local
machine.
Can you tell me how to navigate to these files? (index.php and
templatedetails.xml)
Thanks
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Your tips came at the right time. I was finding myself deeper and
deeper in a clutter. I was attempting to figure Mambo out myself,
but all I was doing was creating alot of clutter. Thanks for the
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Quote:
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I am currently working directly on a remote server not on my local
machine.
Can you tell me how to navigate to these files? (index.php and
templatedetails.xml)
This is always done remotely. You should be able to ftp your site.
The templates are kept in a folder called templates; each named
template has its own folder. So in my site I go to the
www/templates/our_main_template/, the files are in that folder.
If you have trouble getting into those folders your permissions
might be set wrong, at which point I suggest you read through some
of the tutorials I mention in the templates tutorial.
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Hi Jazztpt
First, thank-you for posting this info. I have search for info on
inserting images and your post is the closest thing to an answer. I
tried the steps you said but all I get on my webpage is the text {mosimage}
and no pic. Any suggestions? I am using ver. 4.5.2.
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In uploading pictures on my website, I received a 500 Server Error
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Hi Jazztpt
I finally figured out a partial solutions to inserting pictures into
my website. It was the clue you gave about the flowers. I tried it
and it worked but it only works when a registered user logs into the
site. If a visitor comes to the site they will only see the text and
not the pictures. Any suggestions
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How do you add flash files?
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Great tips! Thank you!
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I registered just so I could say, "I love you."
fantastic resource!! I'm no dummy when it comes to site design,
HTML, CSS and even PHP. But the initial steps in setting up--just
setting up, mind you--were baffling.
In other threads it's been opined that stuff has been left out of
the documentation because the authors just took it for granted that
what was clear to them was clear to everyone, when in reality it was
clear to them, God and nobody else.
I never had a problem butchering or home-rolling templates, but
there was absolutely NOTHING that described the basic steps in just
getting Mambo up and running.
Sections? Categories? Which is the cart and which is the horse?
Menu positions? Wha? Where? Again, NOTHING to indicate where one
could go. After clicking on so many menu items, it was very
difficult keeping track of where one has been short of writing it
down--and this is the intarweb! Who writes stuff down? paper? what
is this "paper" of which you speak?
I think one major problem with mambo, its obvious uses
notwithstanding, is the user interface really, actually, sucks. It's
not intuitive, and related operations are scattered hither and yon.
One small example: once a new menu is created, then there should be,
right there where one has set up or is setting up the new menu the
options for positioning it.
That's one beef I have. I don't have time right now to make a list,
but it would be fairly extensive.
So I'll shaddap now and say again, bless you!
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what is the the code that cause a cell not to appear if it is empty?
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Hi Anna!
I would very much like to compile your tips on my new
teachmeJoomla.com website (not yet online, will be up Dec 2005).
I would like to have your approval, and I don't know who is the
legal owner of this forum's content. I hope both issues will get
positively resolved.
The site will be yet another Joomla-oriented (and joomla-powered)
website.
Please reply. Thank you.
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Hey Anna,
Thanks a whole lot for all the tips, they were very helpful. I have
a question though.
How would you go about setting up a quotation of the day to appear
on your home page? I need a "question and answer" and then just a
quote.
Thanks a lot,
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Anna:
I would like to build a 'bare bones' site for a friend such that the
only things available to him on the 'admin' panel wouild be only
those things that are specific to his site. Once you hand over a
site to someone they will invariably 'screw' it up playing with the
'admin' options. Is there a systematic approach to paring down the
options available so all the 'bells and whistles' of mambo/joomla
are not shown, only the ones for the site.
habuchas
Hey Anna,
Thank you so much for the tutorials, tips and tricks, they really
helped a lot. But I have a question.
I am trying to delete sections, but I can't be cause they have
categories. I try to delete the categorioes, but I can't do that
because they have "records." My question is, are records the same as
content?
I've already deleted all of the content, but records.....
Thanks a so much,
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Is there a systematic approach to paring down the options available
so all the 'bells and whistles' of mambo/joomla are not shown, only
the ones for the site.
You can give him editor level privs which will remove most of the
nuts and bolts access but still give them ability to create edit and
approve content items
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Hey Anna,
I downloaded the latest calendar module from the Mambo Forge, and
then downloaded the latest events component.
I got the calendar to publish, but when I publish events, it doesn't
show on the calendar. Would you know how to fix this problem?
Please email me at redavis3@adelphia.net
Thanks,
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Excellent tips etc. Anna - Thanks!
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Hey Anna,
This really help...thanks a lot...
How I just installed a fresh copy of 4.5.3 but none of my "new"
buttons not working....new menus, new catagory, new sections etc...
Any tips here..I'm stucked....
Anyboby?
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Old January 21st, 2006, 00:09 #47
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerubaal
If I download a Mambo template and want to modify the Logo (because
my client is not Mambo) and replace it with something more specific
to his site, how do I go about doing that?
Am I limited to writing code? I saw your reference to the
Dreamweaver MX Tutorial for new templates. Is that what I need if I
want to design something specific for my client? i must be missing
something huge somewhere.. Thanks for taking time to help. I am
really stuck!
As Anna said, you can change the files once installed the template,
using ftp and remote access.
But there is another way.
You can modify the template before installing it into Mambo.
First, download the desired template to your machine, decompress the
files maintaining the directory structure and search for the logo
image on the "images" folder using some picture viewing software.
Once you found the file, open it on your favourite image retouching
software and make the changes needed to put your customer's logo.
If you save the image without changing any of the parameters of the
image (I'm referring to pixel size, name and format of the file) the
template will use your modified file as if it were the original.
Then you can recompress the file in zip format and install your
modified template as usual.
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Hi Jazztpt
I finally figured out a partial solutions to inserting pictures into
my website. It was the clue you gave about the flowers. I tried it
and it worked but it only works when a registered user logs into the
site. If a visitor comes to the site they will only see the text and
not the pictures. Any suggestions
Mosimage, as any other mambot, must be published to be available to
use.
I think that maybe you have published it with the "Registered"
access level.
If this is the case, please change the access level to "Public",
this should solve the problem.
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How do you add flash files?
Go to http://mamboforge.net/search/ and do a search of FLASH. there
are lots of projects to integrate flash and mambo, from mambots to
components with menus, games, etc.
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Hello Anna,
i'm just a programmer that must develop some modules for mambo, and
that fast. Your tips&tricks helped me a lot to understand the Mambo
"way to go".
Great explanation!
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I am new to Mambo. Have a site up with a lot of content, understand
how to do all the basics with making changes to menus and content as
such. Here is my big problem. I have tried to use some PHP code
techniques that work fine on non-Mambo sites, for instance with
cookies, with global variables, to control what I want, but with
Mambo, some things appear to not be refreshed in the headers, for
instance, and I am just not seeing what to do.
There is a group of clients that want "co-branding." They want to
have the same basic site (menus, content, modules, all the basic
services and options for the visitors) but tailored with their
specific logo up in the header, and also variations with text,
links, etc. for material that will be always up there about the
left, right, and center parts of the main body. In other words, the
same basic site but with different sponsor-specific data to be
displayed in well-defined places, depending on the current "focus" .
This "focus" is something that in our scheme will come from one of
the following options:
(a) the home page is a subdomain; e.g., abc.oursite.com as opposed
to def.mysite.com or the main one, mysite.com
Same basic template always, same styles, fonts, layout, just
different logos and text here and there.
(b) a user logs in and has an assigned code, and this value, being a
field in a row in a DB table, is used to govern the "co-branding"
specifics.
So, for example, in the default header is image foo.jpg, then a user
logs in.
Let user1 have code 1, user2 have code 2, and:
if code=1, the header should be redisplayed to have image abc.jpg,
but if code-2, the header will now show image def.jpg.
And meanwhile, everything is the same within the content panes of
the main body.
I know how to do dynamic stuff in that content, because there, when
a content item comes up, it will run any embedded PHP that is in the
content item. The problem seems to be that once the headers are put
up through index.php of the Template, things never go back there
again.
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Anna,
is it possible to create further drill down from a Content Item?
Basically I'd like to have something like this:
Section
Category
Content 1
Content 2
Sub Content A
Sub Content B
Content 3
thoughts?
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I have a client running Mambo - a retail store in hip woman's
fashion and I nearly had a heart attack after looking at Mambo. The
light is slowly coming on - but I still have the urge to fire up
DreamWeaver and redo the entire site in straight html/php.
Thanks for the tips!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jazztpt
Templates determine the look of your site, or of different sections
of your site. If you go to the Template page of your admin (Site ->
Template Manager -> Site Templates), you will see a few templates
listed. Try clicking on one (the buttons to the far left, not the
template name) and then clicking the “default” icon in the toolbar.
Then browse to your site to see how the template changed the look of
your site.
What is a Template? Templates are sets of files that determine the
look of your site. The main file is “index.php,” which includes html
code for layout elements like tables, your logo, etc, and inserts
php code for dynamic elements. The next most important file is the
style sheet or css file, which determines fonts, colors, and borders
for each element in the site.
Check out this visual of your “index.php” file:
http://www.annacallahan.com/images/template_layout.gif
“header.jpg” is your logo. “body” is a block that will contain
content. The orange blocks in the figure are Positions, which you
can place in table cells. Remember that these Positions can contain
any number of modules, and those modules can be turned on and off .
(Imagine that in the “top” position you have a search module and a
date module, for example, and in the “left” position you have a menu
and a login.) When you make a template, you’re just setting aside
the space on the page by inserting a position. The positions are
placed in the table cells of your website with php code that looks
like this: <?php mosLoadModules ( 'left' ); ?>
The style sheet. Your template also has a style sheet that controls
the fonts, colors, borders, etc. of each element of the page. Here
are some explanations of the naming convention:
for download - http://www.mambohut.com/index.php?op...&filecatid=107.
on the web - http://www.mambonotes.com/content/view/30/101/
with visuals - http://www.mamboos.de/Mambo_CSS_Guide/
Well, that’s the basic explanation of templates. The following are
specific instructions on downloading or designing templates:
Downloading templates. I haven’t used other people’s templates, but
I’m sure there are lots of places you can get them. Start at
http://mambohut.com/.
Designing templates. Absalom Media has a good tutorial on designing
templates here:
http://www.absalom.biz/tutorials/Mam..._Tutorial.html
If you want to design your own and use Dreamweaver, I recommend this
tutorial: www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/. It will guide you
through downloading a Dreamweaver extension that allows you to
design templates there. It also recommends you download MSAS, the
Mambo Stand Alone Server, which essentially puts a mini-server with
MySQL & Apache right on your computer so that you can see your
template before uploading it to the web. Another even more detailed
step-by-step tutorial is at:
http://www.allmambo.com/index.php?o...&id=13&Itemid=2 (thanks
jetzkr8!).
(Note: some of these tutorials are for 4.5.1. If you come across a
more current or better or shorter tutorial, please let me know!)
Now that you’ve got a template, we’re going to put some modules in
the positions you just created.
Next tip: Modules and pages.
I was moving along thinking I was making progress by following the
links on this page. I downloaded the Mambo Server, MSAS 452. I spent
awhile finding the right extension for my version of Dreamweaver to
get this program working and streamline the template design process.
I was unprepared for what happened next. I opened the executable
file for the server and was told that Mambo would be extracted. When
I went into Dreamweaver and started preparing the tutorial, I was
informed AT THAT POINT, that this was for a 4.51 version of Mambo. I
had already begun using the latest 4.53 version and uploaded it to a
remote server and had wanted to manipulate the local files to upload
to the remote. What a convoluted mess, what with so many versions of
incompatible issues with the new version I am completey confused.
Did I mention I wasted a LOT of time? I gave this learning curve two
weeks but had to opt for an asp site for my intended project, due to
the extreme confusion surrounding this program. I bought a domain
and host to experiment on too. This is all a little too much as far
as organization goes. I want to ask you what I should do about the
MSAS server version that seems to have installed Mambo again...an
earlier version? Should I remove this or the other standalone 4.53
version- if I want to edit the site locally with Dreamweaver MX?
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Hi Anna,
I'll like to make a section page where nmy members can
download/upload files like Mp3 and Mpeg where we can share on the
site. But I can't find resources over here. Can you guide me about
this? Thanks alot.
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I didn't get a reply from my post subject but was led here...by
email to a resoponse to my inquiry. ...TIP 5... total confusion! My
thread was about finding out if the MAMBO server was compatible with
the new version of Mambo. AND Is this support only for an older
version or the newer version? I cannot post a url to clarify,
because there isn't one!
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This simple explanation does not work. I try to enable the tinyMCE
and get nothing upon saving. I have no idea what NO WYSIWYG is for
but I CANNOT change it.
The interface has:
NAME: No WYSIWYG Editor
FOLDER: editors
MAMBOT FILE: none
MAMBOT ORDER: 0
ACCESS LEVEL: public
RADIO: Y/N
TNY MCE cannot be activated. What a mess this is! Do you have an
older version of Mambo? I'm about ready to give up on this.
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How abt if I don't to let members uploading files. But I want to let
them listen to the mp3 I've uploaded. If their my members, I'll
provide them to download also. Where can I get the resources? Please
help. Thanks alot.
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Thank you, this is an excellent overview of Mambo's functionality.
But I do have a question or two regarding
sections/categories/content.
Basicly is there anyway to create a "sub-category"? I have a project
that would greatly benefit from having the ability to add one more
level container.
Secondly, regarding content in a specific section/category. Is there
some way to create a template of core information that could serve
as an outline for someone that might want to add say a standardized
report in that section?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to set up a section, have it hold about
a dozen major categories with each one have numerous sub cats. Then
have a standard content page that registered users can fill out and
submit be held until an editor authorizes it. It seems the Mambo has
everything to do that, but I've not figured out the template part
yet.
Subcategories - Not possible with mambo. It is one of the
negatives that ppl usually mention in 3rd party reviews of the this
CMS.
as for the 2nd point...not to clear on what you want Submitting news
is possible via the frot end..just not sure what you mean by
template.
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Thanks,
What I mean is I want a standardized template/form that will come up
for content when someone adds content in that section. Things like
name, location etc in a standardized formate instead of just a blank
html based page.
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Ok..I understand now. However, I dont think I can help you out
there. What you are asking for would require some hacks to the core
code and my php skills are non existent.
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Actually there is a way to TRICK the system into appearing to have a
3rd level of sub cats...
It is done via the menu....But doesn't allow table views to be
used...
Create a section...then create a bunch of cats under it including
3rd level sub cats
In the top level menu you make a section blog and select all the
categories and order them so that they reflect your tree structure
desired...
Then make another menu item as a sub menu of that top level link
with your main categories! Any category that has 3rd sub level cats
should be included in that display!
Then you can make yet a 3rd level menu item with the 3rd level cats
only being displayed!
the database and mambo won't know them as 3rd level cats but to the
end user they will appear to be part of the main cat but a sub
section!
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Old March 25th, 2006, 07:07 #65
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I have just started doing a site with Mambo and have run into a
problem. I have some pages that I want to have on my site that are
not Mambo. The files that I have uploaded are not showing up when I
try to view them. Instead, the homepage shows up. I am sure that I
uploaded them but I didn't know what directory of mambo to put them
in.
If anyone hase a suggestion, please let me know.
Many thanks,
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It's only going to be possible to help if you FTP into your server
and have a look in your Mambo folders until you find your files that
you uploaded.
Alternatively,you can navigate your directories with Joomlaxplorer
from within the Mambo administrator console,until you find them.
http://virtuemart.net/index.php?opti...51&Item id=80
You can upload files to any folder on your server.I have lots of
folders external to Mambo with images and files in.It's useful for
when I upgrade,because I can simply delete the Mambo core files then
replace with a fresh set without worrying about accidentallly
deleting anything important and having to restore from backups
later.
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I've tried uploading the files into several of the folders but have
been unsuccessful. I was wondering if there was a certain directory
that must be used. Do you have a separate directory that you have
your non-Mambo pages in?
Thanks
Quote:
Originally Posted by maligned-geek
It's only going to be possible to help if you FTP into your server
and have a look in your Mambo folders until you find your files that
you uploaded.
Alternatively,you can navigate your directories with Joomlaxplorer
from within the Mambo administrator console,until you find them.
http://virtuemart.net/index.php?opti...51&Item id=80
You can upload files to any folder on your server.I have lots of
folders external to Mambo with images and files in.It's useful for
when I upgrade,because I can simply delete the Mambo core files then
replace with a fresh set without worrying about accidentallly
deleting anything important and having to restore from backups
later.
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Unsuccessful why? Because of incorrect ownership?
Joomlaxplorer can help if that is the case.
Yes - as stated,my non-Mambo files are outside of Mambo,in seperate
directories
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I will try that suggestion.
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Is there any information on how many pages you can have in Mambo?
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As Many as you want...there is no limit.
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Thanks. I am not finding this that Jazz talks about. "Mambo comes
with a wysiwyg editor called TinyMCE. To activate it, got to Mambots
-> Site Mambots. Unpublish the “No WYSIWYG Editor” and publish “TinyMCE
WYSIWYG Editor.”
All I get when I go to Mambots>Site Mambots> is search content,
search weblink, search contacts, etc.
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Mambo -->site Mambots
In the drop down menu in the top right hand corner, select
'editors'.
There you should see the editor mambots.
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Thank goodness for Jazztpt. Thank you for all the information and
advice.
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Question upload an image directly into the database of mambo
Quote:
Originally Posted by jazztpt
First you need to upload your images into the Media Manager. It’s
under Site -> Media Manager, and it’s pretty obvious how to use it
to upload files. Just remember that while the “browse” button is
below the files icons, the “upload” button is above in the toolbar.
Same with creating directories – create below, hit the “create”
button above.
Hello Anna
Congratulations for your very helpfull tutorial.
My problem is as follows:
I'm trying to upload images using the Media Manager but it's
impossible in my case. The reason: the directory where the images
are supposed to be uploaded is not a writeable directory.
I cannot configure none of the directories or files as writeable.
I´m not the owner of the server and the administrator tells me that
the model of administraton of web pages do where I have my mambo
hosted don't permit that.
Any way (good or badly) I have my mambo web page working, but I have
first to upload the images via ftp to let the users publish them in
usigng the mambo interface.
I know that is technically possible to upload an image and put it in
a database. But I cannot see how can I do it in mambo.
Do you know if there's any possibility to upload an image directly
into the database of mambo?
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Quote:
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Actually there is a way to TRICK the system into appearing to have a
3rd level of sub cats...
It is done via the menu....But doesn't allow table views to be
used...
Create a section...then create a bunch of cats under it including
3rd level sub cats
In the top level menu you make a section blog and select all the
categories and order them so that they reflect your tree structure
desired...
Then make another menu item as a sub menu of that top level link
with your main categories! Any category that has 3rd sub level cats
should be included in that display!
Then you can make yet a 3rd level menu item with the 3rd level cats
only being displayed!
the database and mambo won't know them as 3rd level cats but to the
end user they will appear to be part of the main cat but a sub
section!
im jsut starting out with mambo but i do have this to add.
further to this quote, i have been in a similar situation. The site
i am creating is for R/C information and we want to do reviews and
such.
so i wanted the menu system to read Reviews, which then had 4 other
options of kits, shops, services and equipment. The kits option
would then have the different manufacturers as catagorys which would
then contain the respective content.
since Mambo as yet doesnt do real sub catagory or sub sections i
took the above post and modded it slightly. Instead of using Section
-> catagory -> catagory. i used Section -> Section -> Catagory.
from my stand point, it looks the same on the screen to the user as
the above, but from the back end it is easier to manage.
When you have it as 2 lots of catagories, the back end is just a
mass of them and sorting them is difficult. if you run 2 sets of
sections, you can sort your catagorys by section to make life
easier.
still cant wait for proper sub sections and catagories but for now
this will do.
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Is there a way to print all these tips, without printing each
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kzoretic
I have just started doing a site with Mambo and have run into a
problem. I have some pages that I want to have on my site that are
not Mambo. The files that I have uploaded are not showing up when I
try to view them. Instead, the homepage shows up. I am sure that I
uploaded them but I didn't know what directory of mambo to put them
in.
If anyone hase a suggestion, please let me know.
Many thanks,
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you could use the "wrapper" to get this done. I have several pages
that I have used this for.
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How can I back up from Control Panel?
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Hey, Folks and Anna, Just started using Mambo and found your
tutorial. Something came up for me just after the install of Mabo
4.5.4. When attempting to view my site template I kept getting the
page with the rectangle on it. In the rectangle was the orange
asterix and "Mambo" with "my site.com" under it and under that was
the verbage," Delete the installation files and folders or this
won't work". (paraphrasing) What I did not know, that I am relaying
here, is that the installation folders are in "Wamp", if, like me,
one is using the Apache "local host" server or, I would assume, ones
ISP's server. So, go to your "Wamp" icon in the tray, click on the
icon and scroll up to "WWW" folder in "Wamp". Open this folder and
find the "installation" folder. All of the files and that folder
need to be right clicked and deleted for Mambo 4.5.4 to work
properly. Once done, all is the sun breaking through the clouds and
everything works in a "just duckie" fashion.
Now, this could just be me as I am learning CSS, xhtml and "Plesk"
all at the same time. But, I found that locating these folders took
a long time and that time could have been better spent reading
Anna's Tutorial.
Large Smile of Satisfaction and many kudos to Anna,
TCrowe (GEPhoto)
For those interested, mouseover "graphics menus" in Mambo using
the standard mos_menu component.
This will work with any W3C compliant browser (everything popular).
The script has several advantages.
1. It uses the mousein/mouseout events of the IMG (image) events of
DOM rather than the "traditional" Link events. This means it is
search engine friendly.
2. It can be applied to any mos_menu, vertical, horizontal... you
can even use it with "interfaces" (custom menu looks like many sites
have, do a google search for "web graphics interfaces" for example).
3. It preloads your images for the active menu images
4. In principle the same concepts can be utilzed to make many DHTML
type functions for your web.
5. Your menu system will still work if the user has scripting turned
off, it wont "mouseover" but the menu graphics will still appear and
the links will work.
Heres the code/instructions:
1. Paste the following into your index.php file between the <HEAD>
</HEAD> HTML statements.
<script>
var W3CDOM = (document.createElement &&
document.getElementsByTagName);
var mouseOvers = new Array();
var mouseOuts = new Array();
window.onload = init;
function init()
{
if (!W3CDOM) return;
var nav = document.getElementById('mouseovers');
var imgs = nav.getElementsByTagName('img');
for (var i=0;i<imgs.length;i++)
{
imgs[i].onmouseover = mouseGoesOver;
imgs[i].onmouseout = mouseGoesOut;
var suffix = imgs[i].src.substring(imgs[i].src.lastIndexOf('.'));
mouseOuts[i] = new Image();
mouseOuts[i].src = imgs[i].src;
mouseOvers[i] = new Image();
mouseOvers[i].src = imgs[i].src.substring(0,imgs[i].src.lastIndexOf('.'))
+ "_omo" + suffix;
imgs[i].number = i;
}
}
function mouseGoesOver()
{
this.src = mouseOvers[this.number].src;
}
function mouseGoesOut()
{
this.src = mouseOuts[this.number].src;
}
</script>
----------
2. Upload your menu images to a directory on your server. The "mousein"
(mouseover) graphic should be named the same as the mouseout
graphics but with "_omo" added. ie, "1.jpg" is your mouseout
graphic, then your mouseover graphic should be named "1_omo.jpg".
---------
3. Locate where in your index.php the menu injection happens such
as:
<?php mosLoadModules('top',-1); ?>
Change this to:
<ul id="mouseovers">
<?php mosLoadModules('top',-1); ?>
</ul>
---------
4. Go into Mambo where the menu setup is. Change the text name to
the actual IMAGE HTML, such as:
<IMG NAME width=70 height=30 border=0 SRC = "../../isagr/21.jpg">
You will see the "image appear" in Mambo vs the Text.
5. Upload your saved index.php to your template directory!
Thats it!
Mouseover menu graphics that are search engine friendly, browser
friendly!
-----
Do note that the above uses the HTML <UL> tag, if your CSS sheet
modifies the UL Tag attributes this will effect the look. To avoid
this you can set up your CSS to use a specfic id for your own UL's.
Last edited by rgisa : June 13th, 2006 at 21:23.
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Old June 20th, 2006, 12:48 #82
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Default How to built a dynamic page?
It is easy to built static page in mambo. How to built a dynamic
page?Could you show me a example?
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Old June 21st, 2006, 19:30 #83
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Default Dynamic HTML In Mambo
It really depends what you are trying to accomplish. Mambo uses a
template file called index.php. All content is "injected" into that
page. Just because the filename is ".PHP" does not mean you cannot
used DHTML. The PHP extension simply means there is PHP code within.
If you put PHP code in a normal HTML file the PHP interpreter will
not transact the PHP code.
You can include Javascript, vbScript, CGI calls, Java App's or
anything else you desire in the index.php file.
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Thank your reply. Index.php is one of the template file. I am going
to do some function with php code. I mean can I make a php file in
content? I don't want put many dynamic functions such a form in
index.php.
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Thumbs up Thank you Anna for your tips!!
Anna-
I just read all of your 10 tips. I am a new admin to Mambo and
really appreciate the time you put into your posts. You did a great
job breaking things down as well as using vocabulary and humor that
the average "newbee" could receive. I was very impressed by your
layout and delivery of information.
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Default The right information for mambo beginners
This is an excellent article and should be really in the Mambo
project document. I have been struggling for weeks and this alone
gives me the comlete picture compared to all other docs which made
be believe the whole thing were disconnected pieces that one has to
figure how to join. I read this article and drew the little pieces
of the puzzle and now has a good understanding about how to proceed.
Thx for writing something like this.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rgisa View Post
For those interested, mouseover "graphics menus" in Mambo using the
standard mos_menu component.
This will work with any W3C compliant browser (everything popular).
The script has several advantages.
1. It uses the mousein/mouseout events of the IMG (image) events of
DOM rather than the "traditional" Link events. This means it is
search engine friendly.
2. It can be applied to any mos_menu, vertical, horizontal... you
can even use it with "interfaces" (custom menu looks like many sites
have, do a google search for "web graphics interfaces" for example).
3. It preloads your images for the active menu images
4. In principle the same concepts can be utilzed to make many DHTML
type functions for your web.
5. Your menu system will still work if the user has scripting turned
off, it wont "mouseover" but the menu graphics will still appear and
the links will work.
Heres the code/instructions:
1. Paste the following into your index.php file between the <HEAD>
</HEAD> HTML statements.
<script>
var W3CDOM = (document.createElement &&
document.getElementsByTagName);
var mouseOvers = new Array();
var mouseOuts = new Array();
window.onload = init;
function init()
{
if (!W3CDOM) return;
var nav = document.getElementById('mouseovers');
var imgs = nav.getElementsByTagName('img');
for (var i=0;i<imgs.length;i++)
{
imgs[i].onmouseover = mouseGoesOver;
imgs[i].onmouseout = mouseGoesOut;
var suffix = imgs[i].src.substring(imgs[i].src.lastIndexOf('.'));
mouseOuts[i] = new Image();
mouseOuts[i].src = imgs[i].src;
mouseOvers[i] = new Image();
mouseOvers[i].src = imgs[i].src.substring(0,imgs[i].src.lastIndexOf('.'))
+ "_omo" + suffix;
imgs[i].number = i;
}
}
function mouseGoesOver()
{
this.src = mouseOvers[this.number].src;
}
function mouseGoesOut()
{
this.src = mouseOuts[this.number].src;
}
</script>
----------
2. Upload your menu images to a directory on your server. The "mousein"
(mouseover) graphic should be named the same as the mouseout
graphics but with "_omo" added. ie, "1.jpg" is your mouseout
graphic, then your mouseover graphic should be named "1_omo.jpg".
---------
3. Locate where in your index.php the menu injection happens such
as:
<?php mosLoadModules('top',-1); ?>
Change this to:
<ul id="mouseovers">
<?php mosLoadModules('top',-1); ?>
</ul>
---------
4. Go into Mambo where the menu setup is. Change the text name to
the actual IMAGE HTML, such as:
<IMG NAME width=70 height=30 border=0 SRC = "../../isagr/21.jpg">
You will see the "image appear" in Mambo vs the Text.
5. Upload your saved index.php to your template directory!
Thats it!
Mouseover menu graphics that are search engine friendly, browser
friendly!
-----
Do note that the above uses the HTML <UL> tag, if your CSS sheet
modifies the UL Tag attributes this will effect the look. To avoid
this you can set up your CSS to use a specfic id for your own UL's.
Hello folks,
Has anyone made this work?
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