Joomla

Joomla is dynamic portal engine and content management system (CMS). Joomla is one of most popular open source under the GPL license. Joomla has written using PHP, commonly using MySQL databases, and need web server to run.

Joomla had 5 basic element: Component, Module, Mambot (Plug-ins), Language, and Template.

Components

Components are Joomla!’s content elements or applications that are usually displayed in the center of the main content area of a template. This depends on the design of the template in use. Components are core elements of Joomla!’s functionality. These core elements include Banners, Contact, News Feeds, Polls and Web Links. Members of the Joomla! community produce third party Joomla! components on a continuous basis.

Module

Modules in Joomla can always help us to add special functionality or special features to our website. In this article by Joseph LeBlanc, we will see how to create and configure a basic module and centralize data access and output using helper classes. We will also have a look at how to select different display options using layouts.

Mambot

A mambot (new Joomla terminology is “plug-in”) adds capability of some kind to components and modules. The mambot allows you to embed a form within an article or other content item.

Language

Language in Joomla is forming translated to using on Joomla interface includes  static texts that are used in the system in various views.

Template

Joomla template is pre ready made design to your Joomla interface. In Joomla we knowing two kind of template, front end template and backend template.

Reference:

Joomla.org

packtpub.com

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