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Conventions and Assumptions

This document is based on and refers to, version 3+ of Jomres for Mambo/Joomla. It discusses installation, maintenance and removal of Jomres from your Mambo/Joomla powered CMS. It assumes that the reader is proficient enough with computers to understand: 

What an operating system is 
The differences between web server applications (apache/IIS) or at least familiar with the concept that there are different web server applications 
Linux/Unix file permissions and the related implications
Mambo/Joomla CMS administration
Module management

It also assumes that you don't need a click by click guide to setting Jomres up. Installation instructions are complete but they do not tell you exactly which buttons to press to perform the upgrade. Anybody who has installed software on a web server using FTP will be able to follow them.

Because Jomres can be used on both Mambo or Joomla, and their administration is very similar, you may see either system referred to in this guide. If there is something that you need to know that's pertinent to only one of these systems we'll make that clear, otherwise we may refer to the system as either "Mambo", "Joomla" or "your CMS". You can consider these phrases as interchangable.


In Jomres there's some terminology that's worth knowing that will help to understand this guide.

MRP : Multi-room property. Businesses like hotels, guest houses and bed and breakfasts that rent out rooms in a property.
SRP : Single room property. Cottages, villas, apartments. Jomres uses the same mechanism to book these out as for MRPs by having one invisible (to the user) room, therefore these are collectively known as SRPs.

Jomres is a multi user booking system allowing users to manage their properties without giving them access to potentially sensative areas of your site. As such there are nominally three areas that we will refer to. These are:

Frontend : Visitor facing pages like property list, property details and booking form.
Backend : Receptionist or Property manager pages. Viewed via the CMS front end (IE public pages) but functionality is restricted to these user types.
Administration : Site Manager's configuration pages reached via www.yoursite.com/administrator/