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Need some suggestion on Mambo
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:25 am
by mmaurya
Hi,
I want to start website of articles. Articles are submitted by different faculty. Question is can i use mambo for this site because the articles may be 4 - 5 pages long then mambo will be right choice or not. And as time goes on database will go bulky, then it creates any problem??
Thnaks.
Regards
Manoj
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:06 am
by MrPotatoes
why don't you use wordpress or a similar blog. wouldn't that do the same thing that you want?
Mambo is a full CMS and all you want is a new script where multiple people can post on
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:07 pm
by patrikG
Thing with Mambo is that it looks pretty, but most of the extensions are on par with OSCommerce in terms of customisation & even less secure (OSCommerce being the smallest common demoninator, in short: hell). Same goes for the Mambo code as well (mind youk, last time I looked at it was version 4.5.2): they've implemented a little bit of MVC (but not fully which makes it worse).
The classes they are using for Mambo are more or less what I would give any junior developer to despair over.
Can't really recommend a CMS - either totally over-designed (ezPublish) or a nightmare for customisation (Mambo, Wordpress (so I've heard), drupal, phpNuke etc. etc.).
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:21 pm
by neophyte
Nah, Drupal is really easy to customize both graphically and functionally. Drupal's hook API for modules provides great access to the core API. You can change almost any behavior you want including core functionality with out touching the core compare that to PHPNuke ( :VOMITS:) or phpBB. Each release gets better and better.
Still, you can't run/manage a Drupal site without fair to good PHP skills. And if all you need is basic Blog stuff Drupal is a bit overkill. The Onion.com is run on Drupal. If you want to get a really big headache try TYPO3.