RogerR
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| Posted: 02/08/2004, 10:17 AM |
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Has anyone found any documentation for Mambo that makes some remote semblance of sense?
I am looking for a frontend that can help me tie together a very large set of CCS projects. After discovering Dave Rexel's tutorial "CCS Does The Mambo" and looking at Mambo I thought "This is exactly what I need!". Then I started trying to extract something resembling logic from the documentation. God! what a conglomeration of nonsense!
For anybody intelligent enough, and coherent enough to come up with a CMS like Mambo to create this, so called documentation, all I can think is that this is some kind of cruel joke. Does anybody know if there is some real documentation for this product? If so I'd sure like to get an URL for it.
Thank you;
Roger R.
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Dave Rexel
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| Posted: 03/15/2004, 2:42 PM |
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Hello Roger
We install, run and integrate Mambo, postNuke, phpwebsite and similar
open-source applications periodically as these applications provide
customers with considerable savings once they find something they like. We
never touch the underlying code to enable CVS updates when needed.
Helping the customer with installation, integration, templating, data import
and usage training services is the revenue source. The lack of documentation
for many of these projects is unfortunately an advantage here.
Here we must consider that most coding projects do not have the resources
available for documentation as most people want to do the glamourous stuff,
ie coding or imagery. It's rare to find anyone interested in writing help
files and other required documentation. However using CCS to create
additional structure while referring (read-only) to the host applications
database framework has often enabled us to realise additional customer
requirements.
CCS is flexible enough to attach to any of the above-mentioned, but...
writing to the datastructures of these applications without knowledge of the
cascaded database instructions required breaks them, and, as you have so
rightly stated, the documentation is often poor. Currently many of these
open-source applications have reached a high level of stablity and
functionality that make them very attractive regardless of cost: SQL-Ledger
is an excellent example of something that would take considerable
development resources to emulate.
As you mention tying together a very large set of CCS projects one thinks of
the CCS Example Pack (a large set of applications tied together by a static
menu). Combining your projects together with a database driven navigation
GUI could be a purely native CCS alternative that is fully under your
control.
BTW was there anything in particular that you were looking for in the Mambo
documentation? http://mosdoc.mamboserver.com/wakka.php?wakka=Home_Page
Greetings
Dave
CCS Tutorials
http://ccs.ath.cx/~ccs/
"RogerR" <RogerR@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
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> Has anyone found any documentation for Mambo that makes some remote
semblance of sense?
>
> I am looking for a frontend that can help me tie together a very large
set of CCS projects. After discovering Dave Rexel's tutorial "CCS Does The
Mambo" and looking at Mambo I thought "This is exactly what I need!". Then
I started trying to extract something resembling logic from the
documentation. God! what a conglomeration of nonsense!
>
> For anybody intelligent enough, and coherent enough to come up with a CMS
like Mambo to create this, so called documentation, all I can think is that
this is some kind of cruel joke. Does anybody know if there is some real
documentation for this product? If so I'd sure like to get an URL for it.
>
> Thank you;
>
> Roger R.
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> The best antivirus a windose user can get - LINUX!
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