I started with Typo3 and thought that was the solution. But it was
over 20MB and has a steep learning curve, and a special language you
have to learn when customizing.
Then I thought EZ Publishing was THE answer, standards compliant etc.
But using it in a shared host environment can be a problem, the
php.ini needs to be changed, I remember there is a parameter something
like "memory_limit" that needs at least 16MB. Also we had to hire a
PHP specialist who spent hours getting it to work.
Now I found Mambo, and I cannot find the right documentation. Also, I
can't find how to add the wysiwyg editor, and which one. And in the
text only text box you (or worse, my customer) needs to add "<br />"
manually to create a new line.
This is my personal experience and I am a bit desperate now...
-Kor
Don't know about Typo, but the key for EZ Publish (not always available
in a shared environment) is that safe_mode must be off, or it won't work
at all. Getting the memory limit changed is not a problem -- just ask
your hosting provider. It does take an age to generate pages on first
viewing -- but once they're cached it's fine. I quite like ezpublish as
the output seems to be properly marked up. It also has much more
powerful means of setting permissions for users.
Mambo on the other hand will work with safe_mode on, has a simple admin
interface and is easy to customise, but its output is by default a
horrid mess of nested tables. I think you would need to edit the modules
you are using to take out the <td class="contentheading"> type of thing
and replace it with proper mark up. Strangely enough I was looking for
just this very thing today and found this site which uses Mambo but with
properly marked up output:
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http://www.aurum3.com/>
As for the wysiwyg editor, it's TinyMCE -- isn't it installed by
default? What version of Mambo were you looking at?
Mambo documentation appears to be almost non-existent, but there are
plenty of sites with tutorials, for example here:
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http://www.mamboportal.com/content/section/2/43/>