Mambo CMS Questions

[KevinG]

I know everyone has their favorite CMS's, but my new client uses Mambo, which looks pretty cool.

For the Mambo CMS I am trying to find out the following:

1. Does it allow for the insertion of fields into the database along with a multi-search function?

For example, I want to have fields for a model's body attributes, such as breast size, eye color, hair color, etc., and the user can search for content on any or all of these fields.

2. Payment Processor / Member's Section:

I need to tie in a payment processor with a member's section and have it work as follows. There are articles with pictures. Non-nude pics are free. Thumbnails linking to nudes and video are for members only. Links to the paid content are on the free side, contained in the article with the enticement to join when they are clicked.

I think the way to affect this on the site is to use a session id rather than htaccess. When links to paid content are clicked a page is loaded asking for login or to join.

a. Is this the right way to do it?
b. After logging in or joining I need to direct them back to page they were on. How do I do this?
c. Any recommendations on an offshore payment processor that integrates with Mambo?


Any help or a point in the right direction is appreciated.