A fast paced introductory tutorial to this well established PHP / MySQL based content management system Mambo Get your website up quickly Walk through the entire process Customize and extend your Mambo site In Detail Mambo is a mature and fully featured Content Management System (CMS). Mambo is both easy to use at the beginner level to create basic websites, while having the power and flexibility to support complex web applications. Mambo implement the core requirements of a full-featured CMS. New features and extensions continued to be added to the core system, with many more available and supported by the community. The book begins by introducing Mambo and concepts behind content management. When you take a tour, your own ideas for what you need in your new website begin to crystallize around what you can see Mambo capable. We then build our web application, using the features of Mambo that are essential for our purposes. At the end of the book we show how, if you have the skills and needs, you can add your own extensions for Mambo. Approach This book focuses on taking you through the tasks essential to create a Mambo site as soon as possible. This book does not aim to cover every feature of Mambo, also not a comprehensive guide to extending Mambo. This book is very readable and the author has a writing style is very chatty and interesting. Who is this book written for? This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals who want to develop a full-featured web presence in a simple and easy process.