Joomla Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World

Wide Web and intranets and a modelviewcontroller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently. Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. The content manager can work on the Internet or intranets and requires a MySQL database and, preferably, an Apache HTTP server. The Joomla development team created a Web site called OpenSourceMatters.org to distribute free information to users, developers, Web designers and the community in general.

Characteristics In Joomla! Include features as: improving Web performance, printable versions of pages, flash news, blogs, forums, polls (surveys), calendars, web site search and language internationalization. His name is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word Anglophone yumla, meaning "all together" or "as a whole." Was chosen as a reflection of the commitment of the group of developers and the project community.

History Joomla was the result of a fork of Mambo on August 17, 2005. At that time, the Mambo name was trademarked by Miro International who formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose to fund the project and protect it from lawsuits. The first version of Joomla! (Joomla! 1.0.0) was published on September 16, 2005 and it was a parallel development of Mambo 4.5.2.3 combined with security patches and anti-bugs. It was followed by version 1.5, 1.6 and Joomla! 1.7 significantly improves the system ACL of users and the ability to create unlimited sections tree, thus avoiding the restrictions that had the old system of classifying content. Joomla 2.5.0 is Planned for release six months after-1.7.0, in January 2012. Originally this WAS to be release 1.8.0, howeve on August 9 It Was Announced That It Would Be renamed to fit Into a new version number scheme in Every Which Will Be an LTS release X.5 release.

Conclusion Joomla is a content system. It is an open source application programmed in PHP mostly licensed under GPL. Joomla has been downloaded 25 million times. More than 8,000 free and commercial extensions available from the official Joomla! The 2.6% of websites are created in joomla.