What is Joomla?
Together with WordPress, Drupal and Typo3 content management system Joomla is one of the best known and most popular open source CMS out of the area. This is a fully dynamic content management system with a variety of applications. It emerged from the Mambo project and was developed in PHP. Joomla CMS is working with the MySQL database, but there are interfaces to other databases in the works.
2005 – following a dispute with the company Miro, based in Australia, which had the naming rights to mambo – rent a majority of the participants to the CMS developers from the project and developed from the version 4.5.2.3 Mambo Joomla 1.0. The term Joomla is derived from the Swahili word Jumla, “all together” to something America. Meanwhile, could completely decouple from the Joomla CMS Mambo and is regarded as a completely separate content management system.
Joomla CMS as it allows multiple editors, content by using various tools to edit and upload to a website. This first one is saved in the database, then the dynamic content using PHP compiled and published. Through numerous modules which, because of the open source system have been programmed by different developers, Joomla can perform other functions. The CMS is completely browser based, a Web page can then be managed by any computer worldwide. To simplify the maintenance of the article allows it Joomla, among other things, to publish these time-controlled. It also features a content management system on different languages and many Web 2.0 community features. It may be used without restrictions and for any purpose, including commercial use.