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JOOMLA

Joomla is a free and open-source content management framework (CMF) developed by the Joomla Project Team, written in PHP and designed for web publishing. It has been downloaded over 30 million times and is the second most used CMS after WordPress, offering features like page caching and language support. The project originated from a fork of Mambo in 2005 and has seen several major releases, with the latest stable version being 2.5.4 as of April 2012.

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JOOMLA

Joomla is a free and open-source content management framework (CMF) developed by the Joomla Project Team, written in PHP and designed for web publishing. It has been downloaded over 30 million times and is the second most used CMS after WordPress, offering features like page caching and language support. The project originated from a fork of Mambo in 2005 and has seen several major releases, with the latest stable version being 2.5.4 as of April 2012.

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Developer(s) The Joomla Project Team

Stable release 2.5.4 / 2 April 2012; 2 months ago [1]

Development status Active

Written in PHP

Operating system Cross-platform

Size 7.6 MB (compressed) 20.9 MB


(uncompressed)

Type Content management framework

License GNU General Public License

Website www.joomla.org

Joomla is a free and open source content management framework (CMF) for publishing content on
the World Wide Web and intranets and a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that
can also be used independently.

Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques (since version 1.6)
and software design patterns,[ stores data in a MySQL or (since version 2.5) MS SQL database, and
includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news
flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

As of March 2012, Joomla has been downloaded over 30 million times. Over 9,200 free and
commercial extensions are available from the official Joomla! Extension Directory, and more are available
from other sources. It is estimated to be the second most used CMS on the Internet after WordPress.

Development

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Joomla was the result of a fork of Mambo on August 17, 2005. At that time, the Mambo name was
trademarked by Miro International Pvt Ltd., who formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose of
funding the project and protecting it from lawsuits. The Joomla development team claimed that many of
the provisions of the foundation structure went against previous agreements made by the elected Mambo
Steering Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stakeholders and included provisions
that violated coreopen source value.

The Joomla development team created a website called OpenSourceMatters.org to distribute information
to users, developers, web designers and the community in general. Project leader Andrew Eddie wrote a
letter that appeared on the announcements section of the public forum at mamboserver.com. A little more
than one thousand people had joined OpenSourceMatters.org within a day, most posting words of
encouragement and support, and the website received the Slashdot effect as a result. Miro CEO Peter
Lamont gave a public response to the development team in an article titled "The Mambo Open Source
Controversy — 20 Questions With Miro". This event created controversy within the free software
community about the definition of "open source". Forums at many other open source projects were active
with postings for and against the actions of both sides.

In the two weeks following Eddie's announcement, teams were re-organized, and the community
continued to grow. Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) assisted the Joomla core
team beginning in August 2005, as indicated by Moglen's blog entry from that date and a related OSM
announcement. The SFLC continue to provide legal guidance to the Joomla project.

On August 18, Andrew Eddie called for community input on suggested names for the project. The core
team indicated that it would make the final decision for the project name based on community input. The
core team eventually chose a name that was not on the list of suggested names provided by the
community. On September 1, the new name, "Joomla!," was announced. It is the anglicised spelling of
the Swahili word jumla meaning "all together" or "as a whole. On September 6, the development team
called for logo submissions from the community and invited the community to vote on the logo; the team
announced the community's decision on September 22. On October 2, brand guidelines, a brand manual,
and a set of logo resources were published for the community's use.

Joomla won the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Award in 2006, 2007, and
2011.

On October 27, 2008, PACKT Publishing announced that Johan Janssens was the "Most Valued Person"
(MVP), for his work as one of the lead developers of the 1.5 Joomla Framework and Architecture. In 2009
Louis Landry received the "Most Valued Person" award for his role as Joomla architect and development
coordinators.
Future release

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Joomla 1.0 was released on September 16, 2005 as a re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 that
combined other bug and moderate-level security fixes.

Joomla 1.5 was released on January 22, 2008. The latest release of this version was 1.5.26 on March 27,
2012. This version was the first to attain long term support (LTS). LTS versions are released each three
major or minor releases and are supported until three months after the next LTS version is released.

Joomla 1.6 was released on January 10, 2011. This version adds a full access control list functionality
plus, user-defined category hierarchy, and admin interface improvements.

Joomla 1.7 was released on July 19, 2011, six months after 1.6.0 This version adds enhanced security
and improved migration tools.

Joomla 2.5 was released on January 24, 2012, six months after 1.7.0. This version is a long term support
(LTS) release. Originally this release was to be 1.8.0, however the developers announced August 9 that
they would rename it to fit into a new version number scheme in which every LTS release is an X.5
release.. This version was the first to run on other databases besides MySQL.

Joomla 3.0 is due to be released in September 2012. Originally, it was supposed to be released in July
2012; however, the January/July release schedule was uncomfortable for volunteers, and the schedule
was changed to September/March releases.

Deployment

You can install Joomla in various ways:

 Extract the source code to a server that has PHP.


 Use a package management system.

 Use a virtual appliance.

 Use TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library. However, doing so comprises the application and
its dependencies as a ready-to-use system.

Many web hosts have control panels that allow you to install Joomla. On Windows, you can install Joomla
using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, which automatically detects and installs any missing
dependencies, such as PHP or MySQL.

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