Anna's Mambo Tips

[shawn122]

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.

[arcticbear]

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.

[shawn122]

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.

[Asphyx]

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!

[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,

bhaynes

[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.

[kzoretic]

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

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.

[maligned-geek]

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

[kzoretic]

I will try that suggestion.

[bbanneli]

Is there any information on how many pages you can have in Mambo? Thanks.

[shawn122]

As Many as you want...there is no limit.

[bbanneli]

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.

[shawn122]

Mambo -->site Mambots

In the drop down menu in the top right hand corner, select 'editors'.
There you should see the editor mambots.

[emmaH]

Thank goodness for Jazztpt. Thank you for all the information and advice.

EmmaH
www.townandabout.com

[nandoprieto]

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?

[Todge]

Originally Posted by Asphyx

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.

[Emae]

Is there a way to print all these tips, without printing each post...maybe a compendium?

Thanks!

[JeniL]

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,

bhaynes

you could use the "wrapper" to get this done. I have several pages that I have used this for.

[etexs]

Hello
How can I back up from Control Panel?
Thanks.

[GEPhoto]

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)