Chapter 1. An Introduction to Mambo

Mambo is a free tool to manage the content of dynamic websites. To be more specific, Mambo is an open-source content management system. While that sounds nice, it probably doesn't answer the basic question of what it can actually do for you.

Mambo allows you to create a dynamic website with minimum effort and programming knowledge. To get the most out of Mambo, a knowledge of web development will prove to be useful, but even then, Mambo is written in the PHP scripting language, which is probably the most popular and straightforward language for creating websites and web applications.

In this chapter, we will take our first look at Mambo, understand what it can do, find out where to go for further resources, and discuss the site we will create in this book.