What is Joomla
Joomla is a free and open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model view controller Web application framework that can also be used independently. It was created by the same award-winning team that broughtthe Mambo CMS to its current state of stardom. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla is written in PHP, uses object oriented programming 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. Joomla is the phonetic spelling for the Swahili Word jumla, which means all together or as a whole. It was chosen as the entire team behind Mambo were unanimous in their commitment to to protecting the interests of the creators and community, which was the true cause for the succes...