Mambo and mysite

loom001 · 27.05.2004, 05:01

Are there plans in the future for Mambo to support a mysite like Microsoft's Sharepoint portal server?

I think that this is what is lacking in every open source PHP portal. I think Mambo has it down for the overall portal, but for the individual user experience is lacking.

I am not sure how familiar others are here of the concept of a mysite, what it is, is a user based site with in the portal that the user can add different content that interest them. It gives the user a very customized experince. much like a yahoo.

I really think that this is needed in the PHP portal world. I think if a PHP portal implements this that project would be huge and give Microsoft a run for their money.

What are others thoughts about this?

alwarren · 27.05.2004, 11:15

You have to remember, Mambo is not a portal. It is a content management system. From mamboserver.com:

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What Mambo isn't!

Mambo Open Source is not a replacement for the Nukes ( PostNuke, PHPNuke etc.). The Nukes are community based portals.

Now whilst Mambo Open Source can be modified, added to etc. to provide this style of site this is not the goal of the project. Mambo Open Source is aimed at the more professional of sites e.g. small to medium business, family or personal sites.

The development team will never go beyond the basic core of content management. It is up to the community to create additional modules and components such as "community" components.

Now repeat after me:

Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal. Mambo is not a portal.

loom001 · 27.05.2004, 17:22

Just to point this out to you on Freshmeat when you do a search for a portal , Mambo is list under that search. Plus the description is as listed?

Mambo SiteServer
A feature-rich, dynamic portal engine/content management tool.

So Mambo is not a portal.. Then someone should not be using the word Portal to describe it.

I usually don't reply like this, but you were trying to make a point so I am going to point out something to you.

jomaco1 · 27.05.2004, 17:56

You guys are both right. Al...Mambo is not a portal!

But...when I first started using Mambo, I was under the same impression.

I think it may have had something to do with the default frontpage news article included with every distribution of MOS....

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If you've read anything at all about portals, you'll probably know at least three things: Portals are the most exciting way to do business, Portals can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive.

Mambo Open Source is set to change all that ... Mambo Open Source is different from the normal models for portal software.

It is, if even ever so slightly...

...misleading.

X-F4CT0R · 27.05.2004, 18:50

What are we disagreeing about??

LoL Content Managment System, Portal same difference, as long as the community is happy!

Mambo is great

alwarren · 27.05.2004, 21:21

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Originally Posted by loom001

Mambo SiteServer
A feature-rich, dynamic portal engine/content management tool.

So Mambo is not a portal.. Then someone should not be using the word Portal to describe it.

Mambo SiteServer is not Mambo OS. It is Mirro's commercial version. Mambo OS is a completely different software system. Just so you know.

loom001 · 27.05.2004, 22:25

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Originally Posted by alwarren

Mambo SiteServer is not Mambo OS. It is Mirro's commercial version. Mambo OS is a completely different software system. Just so you know.

Right or wrong that link at Freshmeat is what lead me to the download of mambo. It goes to www.mamboserver.com and I don't see a completely different software download there.

alwarren · 28.05.2004, 06:42

OK. I do find some references to SiteServer and Mambo OS that lead to mamboserver.com. It's used to be a common question and mistake since SiteServer is a different software package. Usually when somone refers to SiteServer, they have seen Mirro's version and have mistaken it for Mambo OS.

lazarus_bitmap · 28.05.2004, 07:49

Part of the problem is the term portal is used about a million different ways. Some people insist on customization -- being able to pick and choose from broad categories of information (sports, entertainment, etc.). Others go further and talk about personalization -- being able to integrate calendar, e-mail, and things that are unique to you. Some people talk about portals as simply sites that pull together lots of relevant information on a particular subject that often come from different sources (with or without the customized part).

So it kinda depends on how you define the term. Mambo certain works for the later, broader concept. And it _can_ work with a lot of tweaking in the customized sense. (modify something like user extended and call custom modules based on it would be one approach)

Once content is being dished up by a database, there's no reason you couldn't build in some features that make it easy to do things like that... But I wouldn't want Mambo looking like MyYahoo! either.

Content management is and should remain the core and the focus. That's what drew me to Mambo instead of the Nukes -- which seemed too much like community portals with CMS tacked on.

But having both some community and some customization features and enhancements wouldn't be a bad thing, IMHO. A CMS with community and portal tacked on sounds better.