Content Management System

A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to create, edit, manage, and publish
content in a consistently organized fashion.
CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news
articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.

CMS may support the following features:

 Identification of all key users and their content management roles;
 The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types;
 Definition of workflow tasks for collaborative creation, often coupled with event messaging so that
content managers are alerted to changes in content The ability to track and manage multiple
versions of a single instance of content;
 Separation of content's semantic layer from its layout (For example, the CMS may automatically

set the color, fonts, or emphasis of text.).

Examples of CMS

 Drupal

 Joomla

 Php nuke

 Mamboo

Etc…
About Joomla

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems.

It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.Joomla
flexible,simple,customizable,powerful and reliable.

Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

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Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody
Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images.

Once Joomla is installed and running ,it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content,update
images,and to manage the critical data that makes organization go.Anybody with basic word processing
skills can easily learn to manage Joomla site.

Present version 1.5.5

About Joomla

Installation
Joomla installation is very simple.

Requirments

Software Min Recommended Latest Option Website

Requirment
Php 4.3.10 4.4.7 http//php.net
5.x series

Mysql 3.23.x or above 5.x series http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

Apache 1.3 or above 2.2 series

http://httpd.apache.org
Installation
Steps:
1.Download joomla package from joomla site(ex:joomla.org)
2.Unzip the package and place the folder in your apache webroot folder (for windows wamp/www/your
directory)
3.Run localhost with joomla folder (http://localhost/joomla)
4.Follow the Screens like select the language,setting admin password,database etc..
5.Remove the installation directory from the joomla folder.
6.Click on admin ,login with admin username,password

Your Joomla site is ready you can add,update,manage your own content,themes,templates on your site
Joomla Architecture

 The MVC paradigm is a way of breaking an application, or even just a piece of an

application's interface, into three parts: the model, the view, and the controller.
 MVC was originally developed to map the traditional input, processing, output roles into
the GUI realm:

In Joomla!, the MVC pattern is implemented using three classes

 JModel
 JView
 JController
Start with Content Manger

Main theme of CMS to maintain data as simple content

Joomla can achieve this my content manager in the Admin Panel

Generally Content will be displayed as Articles

Article manager follows simple structure

Content manager

Article manager

Section manager

Category manager

Front page manager

Section Manager

Articles in Joomla! are organized into Sections and Categories. Sections are the top-level of organization and

Categories go under Sections. The Section Manager is the place where you can edit existing Sections and
create new ones .
Sections are used for two reasons.

The first reason is for organizing Articles on your web pages. The Section Blog Layout and Section Layout
allow you to display multiple Articles on a page for a given Section. So, in the example above, you could have
a
page for 'People' that shows Articles related to this Section.

A second reason to use Sections is to help manage your Articles in the back-end Article Manager.

If you have a large number of Articles, you can filter by Section so you only see the Articles from one Section.