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Back in the day I did quite a few Mambo sites. Although I now prefer Drupal for many good reasons, Mambo remains a popular Content Management System (CMS). A few years back there was a split in the open source Mambo community which resulted in the entire development team leaving. They forked the code and created Joomla, which was recently voted 2007’s Best PHP Open Source CMS winner(Drupal won for the Overall Open Source CMS category).

Anyway, I have a Mambo site which I needed to upgrade to Joomla this week. The process is fairly simple, and it outlined at http://help.joomla.org/content/view/818/181/ I’ll summarise:

• Backup everything – Mambo files and Joomla files.
• Upgrade Mambo to latest version (4.5.2 or 4.5.2.3 – either works)
• Upload latest Joomla files and overwrite Mambo files (but don’t upload the “installation” folder)
• In the installation/sql folder there’s a file – migrate_Mambo4523_to_Joomla_100.sql. Execute it as a sql query in phpMyAdmin – this will upgrade your database to a Joomla database.

And you should be good to go. I didn’t need to change anything in my Mambo template for it to work on Joomla – hopefully this is the case for you too.

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As you know, I’m a freelance web developer, which means I make websites do cool things (making them look cool is a designer’s job) and to do that, I use the “linux of the internet”, a little piece of software magic called Drupal. Drupal is open source, meaning anyone can poke under the hood and change things, and it has a robust user community around it, constantly improving it.

The big news of the last few days is that Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, has co-founded Acquia, a startup company which will give the financial muscle necessary to keep Drupal at the forefront of the web (especially in implementing open API’s which would allow Drupal to integrate with Facebook, OpenSocial, 2nd Life and others, allowing for some cool mashups). Acquia won’t annex Drupal or fork the code or make it closed-source. It’s intention is to be as what Ubuntu or Red Hat are to Linux. I think this is a great move, especially since Dries (who will retain the Drupal trademark while the Drupal Association continues to operate drupal.org) writes:

Furthermore, I’m expressly permitted to make decisions within the Drupal project that may not always be in Acquia’s best commercial interest.

Overall, this is a Good Thing for Drupal.

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