Mambo Tutorials
The following tutorial is for an older version of Mambo, but the basic operation of the latest version is similar - you should not be using an old version of Mambo as there are security vulnerabilities. Always make sure you are using the latest version.
Please also see our Glossary of Terms - a quick-reference guide to the terminology used by Mambo. If you have any comments, suggestions or criticisms about any of our tutorials, please contact us.
The quick start tutorial is also available in the following languages:
If you would like to translate the tutorials into your own language, please contact us.
The tutorials are available for download in Microsoft Word format, or PDF format. The PDF versions are also supplied as zip files for faster downloading. Please be patient after clicking on a link, as it may take a minute to download or display the document.
Mambo Tutorial - Quick Start Guide
The following tutorial provides a basic introduction to administering a Mambo website. Although not a comprehensive user guide, it does give you enough information to be able to begin using Mambo correctly. The official mambo documentation can be found on the mambo help website: docs.mambo-foundation.org (opens in a new window).
Mambo (4.5.2.3):
mambo-phpShop Tutorial
This tutorial tells you just about everything you need to know to get to grips with the mambo-phpShop e-commerce component. The official documentation for mambo-phpShop can be found on the product's website: www.mambo-phpshop.net (opens in a new window). NB. mambo-phpShop has now been renamed to VirtueMart and is compatible with Joomla!
Your Feedback
Here are some much-appreciated comments we have received since publishing these mambo tutorials...
"Thank you, THANK YOU! for your Mambo-phpShop 1.2 Quick Start Guide and the Mambo Quick Start Guide. They have helped me tremendously. They are very easy to follow, since you explain all of the concepts and jargon/terminology. I love the screen shots-it makes things so much easier for those of us who are visually inclined. Thanks again for all your work." - Shawna Manning.
"Just wanted to say how excellent I think your tutorials are - at last someone has produced something in plain English that truly should become the official guide." - Pete. (www.nativespace.com)
"Regarding Mambo 4.5.1a Quick Start Guide. Great publication!" - Chris Bowyer. (www.portaldomains.com.au)
"Just wanted to thank you very much for your really VERY useful Quick Start! It was the most useful Introduction that I found until now. Great!" - Susanne
"Thanks so much for your wonderfully helpful articles on Mambo - they were the only light in the tunnel for me!" - Benjamin Dowling. (www.visionsound.com)
"Thanks very much for this. Very clear. It is more helpful than the Official Manual in many ways." - Brian Gurnett.
"Thanks for your Quick Start Guide – great piece of work. It was quite frustrating at first with Mambo, to come across such a great product, but to have to fight through the maze of its structure & UI to get an intuitive feel for how it fits together. And then you have to explain it to the next person! Your guide is perfect for that." - John Marsh.
"Thanks a million for these tutorials!! I've been playing around with Mambo and hit a couple of walls. Your tutorials have shed some light on certain features of Mambo that baffled me before.
Your description of how the content structure can differ from the menu link structure was clear, concise and very helpful. Also, I had been wondering which was the best way to do something, and what difference was to do things one way (e.g. through the menus to the right of the item creation pages or the menu options that appear on the homepage ), and what exactly the difference was among the different menu link types. I was also a bit confused about how to use the placeholders within a text item and get the 'right' image to show, as well as how the feature related to the media manager.
You have answered so many niggling questions for me. I can't thank you enough. I was getting very frustrated." - Marianne Graff
"This is a great tutorial... cool facts and screenshots!" - David Marquardt. (www.mamboteam.com)
"Thank you so much for the excellent manual. Would you consider have it translated into dutch one day (am a translator)?" - Bert Dorenhaag.
"I'd just like to thank you for putting together your Quick Start for Mambo. I've been hacking around with that thing for a couple of days without anything working. A quick read through your doc and it kinda "clicked". I'm far from an expert, but at least now I've some basic content up and a decent understanding of how to start. I just wish I'd found your pdf a few days ago :)" - Jeff Vince.
"I was a desperated mambo user... until your tutorial appears in my life. With your manual I have re-discovered mambo in a few minutes... well, I have spent already a lot of time reading information, and that helpme a lot to understand mambo. But I didn't get a certain perspective over Mambo until I read your tutorial...thanks, thanks a lot." - Misael Rodriguez.
"After spending an hour trying to work with mambo, I found your tutorial and in 10 minutes made a quantum leap. Thanks." - Craig Bramscher.
"Your tutorial is absolutely fantastic!!! Thanks a lot for writing and publishing this one. With your permissions I'll take the contents and integrate them into the official documentation." - Soeren Eberhardt. (Mambo-phpShop developer - www.mambo-phpshop.net)
"I've been doing mambo for about six weeks, off and on, mostly off. i certainly would have liked to have your quick start guide back then. I am particularly impressed with the illustrations and could see them being used in an intermediary educational tool for (using the mambo terminology) editors and publishers so they have a deeper understanding of the underlying structure, as well as what's flexible and what's not." - David Cole. (colegroup.com)
"That's one great tutorial! Keep up the good work." - Lee Cher Yeong. (www.mossets.com)
"I am a proffessional mambo user, and one of the first members of the greek mambo community in Greece. In our site we have many tutorials about specific mambo sessions, in greek. I want to ask you whether can I translate in greek your 2 tutorials, and publish them in my site, of course mentioning your work, and you as the author of the tutorials." - Aris Ntatsis.
"I downloaded Mambo for the first time just last night - now I'm not a dull man, and I'm sure I could have brought myself up to speed on Mambo given a few hours of website hopping and tedious research. 'If only', I thought to myself, 'I knew somebody who could give me a quick run down just to get the basics out of the way and allow me to jump in and learn the rest'.
Then I came across Netshine!
Those were the most clearly written, thorough and informative 8 pages (sans images) I've read in months, and the author or authors should be congratulated. You saved me literally hours of my own time by communicating clearly and covering all pertinent information with little dross, so I just wanted to say - thanks!" - Mook. (www.themook.net)
"I only read the Mambo one, but it was very helpful to me. I'm just getting started, and while I had a good grasp on the technical end, some of orginization and theory was lacking in the other materials I read. I'd give it an 'A'." - TJ Schmitz. (http://tjstechthoughts.blogspot.com)
"Good Work. Thanks a lot for the tutorials. It was a good help to start." - Ignacio Varela.
"I've just read the phpShop Tutorial and... it is very good! Nice job! Wonderful!" - Smog The Cat.
"Great job on your Mambo tutorials." - Mike. (www.mjrsolutions.com)
"Thank you for your good mambo tutorial and mambo-phpshop tutorial." - Akarawuth T. (www.mambohub.com)
"This is a good introduction - cleared up alot of my confusion!" - Stix.
"I have been at a dead end trying to understand the structure of the menus and how they relate to the content. This tutorial offers a clear overall picture for those of us who have no programming and formal training in this area. Once the logic is explained in simple terms, the process can be followed. Most tutorials don't offer a reason "why" things need to be done a certain way for fear of becoming lengthy and cumbersome. I now have my menus working and things are starting to make sense. We need more of this. I can't thank you enough." - Grant Fuller. (www.grantfuller.ca)
"Great Tutorial! Very well written and the screen shots really helped. I’ll keep an eye out for your next one… Thank you." - Edgar L. Blunt. (www.denham.net)
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