Archive for 'Tips'
Ask a Grokker: Creating a Lightbox Slideshow
Posted on January 09, 2009, under Plugins and Tags, Tips.
Adam Tuttle wrote a tutorial on how to use the Lightbox plugin and how to take advantage of Lightbox Slideshow feature.
Finding the current DB type in a Mango plugin
Adam Tuttle has written a very informative post explaining how you can find the database type of the current Mango install when developing plugins. Knowing that would be important if your plugin wants to store data in the database or retrieve data stored by Mango itself.
Ask a Grokker: Why can't I activate an inactive Plugin in Mango?
If you ever encountered this problem when activating or inactivating a plugin, Adam Tuttle explains a solution.
More URL rewriting
Similar to the URL rewriting guide by Adam Tuttle, Mark Aplet has written a guide on how to apply URL rewriting for Mango using ISAPI_Rewrite 3.0.
How to setup URL rewriting guide
Mango supports friendly URLs out of the box, but those still contain the .cfm extension. Mango also allows you to change the URL of your posts, pages and archives. That requires a URL rewriting engine. Adam Tuttle has posted a guide on how to setup URL rewriting to create friendly URLs for Mango, without the .cfm extension using Ionic's ISAPI rewrite.
