Why joomla?

Ok! This post is going to be something different from the other. From the start I have been explaining about the components and modules and other stuff. I thought that you need some break and learn some of the basics of joomla and its story.

At the start there were only static pages. There are no dynamic pages. When I say this you will ask me what a static and dynamic page is. The answer is very simple if content remains the same and does not get changed then it is called static the opposite is dynamic page, it will get changed and even it get user input and work according to it.

We used only Html language, but “Need is the mother of invention”, People want the data to be stored and retrieve it whenever they need it. This need created Database. HTML does not handle database effectively they wanted a solid programming language to solve this. This need pawed way for PHP (Hyper text Pre Processor). It handled both the database and HTML (Data and Layout).

Even though PHP solved the problem some new problem raised, PHP is also called as personal Home Page without knowing that how come I can create my personal page. If I want to create a website I want to hire a PHP and it is quite costly and no guarantee he will do a perfect job. Then How do I manage my site? A very big question but answer is just 6 letters it is “joomla”.

What is joomla? What does it really mean? How does it work? Where do I use? There are many questions like this. Let me explain all of these. Joomla is derived from the word Swahili it means “All together”. It is very simple all you have to do is just turn on and turn off. We as the programmer take all the difficulties to give you a best interface to work with which in turn makes the users life very easy.

Joomla is a package just Download from www.joomla.org and install in a apache environment I would say go for xammp and do the necessary things to start with. In matter of some clicks your site is ready. In order to understand the joomla working one should know what a front end (site) is and a back end (administration) is. What the world sees is the front end, what a site administrator sees is backend.

Joomla as default just a base how does it get into a shape then comes components, modules and plugins. Everything do their job in perfection. Components is a major aspects of the site it will say what are the features does a site possess. Modules are also equally important it can work in both the ways independent of the component and also dependent of the components. Here were the user can just turn the modules on and off. Plugins are the one which can function globally. Many programmers are trying to solve many of the problems through this without affecting the joomla core files.

Let us see more in next post.

S Ramachandran MCA