Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. This presentation will cover all of the highlights and features Joomla has to offer. www.silenceit.ca

1. JOOMLA CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
PART 1

2. 1. Joomla introduction .
2. Joomla popularity .
3. Joomla features.
4. Joomla support .
5. Joomla Development.
6. Joomla walk through.
7. Joomla extnsions .
8. Joomal framework.
9. References (joomla website).
Contents

3. What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you
to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and
extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an
open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
Joomla Introduction
In 2001 an Australian company developed a cms named mambo, two versions of the cms where published ,
the commercial(MCSM) version and the open source version MOS)., the open source version experienced
a great success .
Joomla History ?
In order to secure the existence and the continued development of Mambo, there were deliberations on all sides
in the course of the year 2005 to establish a foundation for the open-source version of Mambo.
On August 10, 2005 it finally happened: The Mambo Foundation was announced on the Mambo project
page. After the positive reactions in the first few hours, it quickly became obvious that Miro in Australia
established the foundation and that the developer team had not been included into the incorporation
modalities. Heated discussions erupted in the forums of the community and the developer team wrapped
itself in silence for a few long days.
So Miro no longer had a development team, and the development team decided to develop a new cms
called joomla which is based on Mambo.

4. Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes :-
• Corporate Web sites or portals
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• E-commerce and online reservations
• Government applications
• Small business Web sites
• Non-profit and organizational Web sites
• Personal or family homepages
• School and church Web sites
• Community-based portals
Joomla popularity

5. •MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - http://www.quizilla.com
•IHOP (Restaurant chain) - http://www.ihop.com
•Harvard University (Educational) - http://gsas.harvard.edu
•Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible
•United nations regional information centre http://www.unric.org/
•The Green Maven (Eco-resources) http://www.greenmaven.com
•Senso Interiors (Furniture design) - http://www.sensointeriors.co.za
•PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural) - http://www.playshakespeare.com
•Outdoor Photographer (Magazine) http://www.outdoorphotographer.com
•More examples of companies using Joomla can be found in the Joomla Community Site
Showcase.
Who uses joomla ?
Joomla popularity

6. joomla Word press Drupal
Joomla popularity

7. Joomla! Day United Kingdom
In these events joomla lectures and disscussions
are carried out
Joomla popularity

8. Features Overview
Joomla is so much more than just a powerful content management system. Here is a list of features "out
of the box," but the true power of Joomla is in its extensibility.
User Management
Joomla has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user
groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and
administrate.
Authentication is an important part of user management and Joomla support multiple protocols,
including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows users to use their existing account information to
streamline the registration process.
Media Manager
The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders and you can configure the
MIME type settings to handle any type of file. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor
tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.
Language Manager
There is international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your Web site
in one language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are possible.
Banner Management
It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client
profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers,
special URLs, and more.
Joomla features

9. Contact Management
The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. It also
supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.
Polls
If you want to find out more about your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options.
Search
Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.
Web Link Management
Providing link resources for site users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every
click.
Content Management
Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can
organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users
can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all
languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.
On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.
Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text,
images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed
modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.
Syndication and Newsfeed Management
With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in
their favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them
all on your site
Joomla features

10. Menu Manager
The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure
your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of your content structure. Put one
menu in multiple places and in any style you want; use rollovers, dropdown, flyouts and just about any
other navigation system you can think of. Also automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help navigate
your site users.
Template Management
Templates in Joomla are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a
single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The level of visual control
goes a step further with powerful template overrides, allowing you to customize each part of your pages.
Integrated Help System
Joomla has a built-in help section to assist users with finding what they need. A glossary explains the
terms in plain English, a version checker makes sure you're using the latest version, a system information
tool helps you troubleshoot, and, if all else fails, links to a
wealth of online resources for additional help and support.
Web Services
With Web services, you can use Remote Procedure Calls (via HTTP and XML). You can also integrate XML-
RPC services with the Blogger and Joomla APIs.
Powerful Extensibility
These are just some of the basic Joomla features and the real power is in the way you customize Joomla.
Visit the Joomla Extensions Directory to see thousands of ways to enhance Joomla to suit your needs.
Joomla features

11. Joomla support and help
Joomla has support for all users
Administrators , editors , .....
Designer .
Developers

12. Create and Share with Joomla!
www.joomla .com has everything that you need to get started get help and support.
Community portal
Community fourm
Joomal extension directory
Documentation wiki
Developers wiki
Administrators
Web designers wiki
Beginners
Other profiles
And alot more on www.joomla.org
Joomla help and support

13. Joomla
Books
Joomla help and support

14. Joomla development
Joomla development is very organized , joomla has three development
teams development , bug squad , security .
The joomla development cycle relies on the community feedbacks
The joomla development team is support by the open source matter
organization this will ensure the continuing development of joomla.

15. The joomla development team is divided in three groups
Joomla development

16. Development Working Group
Tasks and responsibilities
•Describe roadmap strategy and after core commitment realising it.
•Define a development strategy and implement it.
•Create (architectual) designs for major and minor versions.
•Do bug- and security fixing in maintenance versions.
•Create new versions of the Joomla! content management system.
Joomla development

17. Joomla Bug Squad
Tasks and responsibilities
•Scan the forum area for reported issues and help community members with solving these issues.
•Maintain the Tracker.
•Perform testing of offered patches and of reported issues.
Joomla development

18. Joomla Security Strike Team
Goals
•Investigate and respond to reported core vulnerabilities.
•Execute code reviews prior to release to identify new
vulnerabilities.
•Provide public presence regarding security issues.
•Help the community understand Joomla security.
Joomla development

19. Joomla installation
Joomla frontend , backend
Installing extensions
Joomla walk through

20. Extension Types and Their Uses
A Joomla! extension is anything that extends Joomla!'s functionality beyond the core.
There are three main types of extension: components, modules, and plugins.
Joomla extensions
There are also languages and templates, but these are solely designed to modify page
output, irrespective of the data being displayed
Joomla Extension Directory

21. Some Examples
Modules
Modules typically make up the elements of a sidebar or content menus. Modules complement the content
contained in a component; they are not intended to be the main substance of a page.
Modules are installed through the control panel , they dont manipulate any data form the database all what
they do is display content like in this example this module displays the weather.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/
More commercial and non commercial modules can be found here
Joomla extensions

22. Some Examples
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/
More commercial and non commercial plug-ins can be found here
Plug-Ins
When a piece of code is needed throughout the site, it is best implemented as a plug-in
(formerly called a Mambot). Plug-ins are commonly used to format the output of a
component or module when a page is built. Some examples of plug-ins include keyword
highlighting, article comment boxes, and JavaScript-based HTML editors. Plug-ins can
also be used to extend the results found in the core search component. The back-end
controls are similar to those of modules.
ReadMoreExt can automatically add articles introduction's images
hyper links, and the hyper links will link to the complete article, just
like the ReadMore link. It applies to front page, section and category
blog layout.
ReadMoreExt
This plugin forces user's registration to be approved first by an
administrator. The user email is first verified, then the administrator
will approve the registration. The template must include a position for
the Message
Multilingual registration approval

23. Banner manager back end controls from
which the user can create and publish
adds
Banner manager Front end module that
displays an add
Example :- Banner manager component
Banner is created
Creating a banner
Publishing the banner in the front end by
creating a module for it using the module
manager in the back end
Banner Front end module that displays an
add
A module is created
Components
Components frequently have sophisticated back-end controls. The back end is commonly used to create and update
records in database tables, as an simple example a small guest book or a simple banner manager , where the user
has controls from which he can use the functionality .
Note:- A component can contains a module and a plug-in .
Joomla extensions

24. Languages
Joomla! has multilingual support, which enables us to present Joomla! in many different
languages. Language extensions include files that define translated strings for different parts
of Joomla!.
Templates
We use templates to modify the general appearance of Joomla!. There are two types of
template extension: site templates and admin templates.
Tools
Tools, although referred to as extensions, are very different to components, modules,
and plugins. The term 'tools' is used to describe any other type extension that can be
used in conjunction with Joomla!.
Joomla extensions

25. Joomla! 1.5 is a three tiered system
•The top, Extensions layer, consists of Extensions to the Joomla Framework and its
applications:
Modules , Components , Templates
•The middle, Application layer, consists of applications that extend the Framework JApplication class.
Currently there are four applications included in the Joomla distribution:-
•JInstallation is responsible for installing Joomla on a web server and is deleted after the v
installation procedure has been completed.
•JAdministrator is responsible for the back-end Administrator.
•JSite is responsible for the front-end of the website.
•XML-RPC supports remote administration of the Joomla website.
•The bottom, Framework layer, consists of:-
•the Joomla Framework itself.
•Libraries that are required by the Framework or are installed for use by third-party
developers.
•Plugins extend the functionality available in the Framework.
Joomla framework

26. Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development
Mastering Joomla 1.5_Extension and Framework Development
www.joomla.com
References
Joomla extensions

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