PremekBrada: MamboEvaluation

from Wiki KIVu

Evaluation of the Mambo CMS

Back to EvalCMS


Summary

Details

Evaluated version: 4.5 (April 2004)

Size OK
unzipped size [3MB], plug-in architecture [yes], coverage of items below [most].
Platform OK
object PHP [yes], MySQL? [yes]
Install and setup OK
time to go operational [3min], web-based config [all], multiple sites in one CMS instance [no] (maybe plug-in exists)
Plain text edit OK
wiki-like input [no], textile [plugin] (as mambot from http://www.mamboportal.com/)
WYSIWYG editing OK
wysiwyg [plugin], configurable [yes] -- see grumbles.
Generated HTML ko
valid XHTML [no] (partly depends on template used).
Templating so-so
user control [single-template], website section differentiation [code-tweaks], snippet templates [no].
Domain-specific applications so-so
mechanism for app inclusion [plug-in].
User management OK
users and roles [roles], user groups with privileges [yes] (but just a fixed predefined set of role groups).
Content structuring ko
hierarchical content [multilevel], hierarchical URL [complex-rewrite], hierarchical presentation [blog/tweaks] -- see grumbles.
Localization OK
L10N? and I18N? issues separate in implementation [partially] (needs patch+plug-in for backend localization).
Metadata OK
can set metadata [page], metadata supported [desc].
URL features OK
link contents [id-hierarchy], search-engine friendly URLs? [mod-rewrite].
Archiving OK
supports archiving (rather than deleting) old content [yes], content is versioned [yes] (but looks like one cannot access older versions).
Statistics OK
usage stats gathered [yes], can create polls [yes].
Documentation so-so
templating manual [rough], programming manual [rough].

Praises:

Grumbles:

Retrieved from http://wiki.kiv.zcu.cz/PremekBrada/MamboEvaluation
Content last modified on 12 July 2005, 12:54