MamboBoard Native Mambo Forum
To install a forum you may consider the native Mambo forum, i.e. MamboBoard.
Just follow the steps below:
- Download the Mamboboard package.
- Now save the file to your hard drive.
- Log on to the Mambo Administration Page
- Go to section component>>Install/Uninstall
- You will see a page “Install New Component“
- In the upload package file section browse to locate the file you have just downloaded.
- Now click on the button Upload & Install.
- Your board is now ready for operation.
Creating a Menu Item for the New Board
- To create a menu item for the new board do the following
- Go to Menu>>Main Menu
- Click the New button to add a new menu item
- Select component as the type of menu items and click Continue button.
- Type Forum as the menu name ( or whatever you want it to see!)
- From the component drop down list, choose MamboBoard.
- Click the Save button to finish the process.
Your Board is now ready with a link pointing to it from your homepage.
Configuration of this board is almost similar to any other boards we see. And anyone familiar with other boards like SMF will be able to manage that.
More reading:
You can see here a pictorial representation of how to add menu items in mambo:
Also Membo provides you with another add-on component for Bad-Word filtering. For that we have to download the package files from:
The installation of this is pretty easy and just like the MamboBoard component you have installed few minutes ago. Still this link gives a good guide for installing Bad-word filter.
Ok that’s all for now.
Bye.