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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

Install/Uninstall


In principle, anyone can write a Joomla! extension, pack it according to set rules, and integrate it into the website. You will find an overview of the installed extensions in this section. When you call up the Extensions | Install/Uninstall menu item, a template appears that gives you three options for installing extensions:

  • Uploading of a file package

  • Installation from a directory

  • Installation by entering a URL

The Install, Components, Modules, Plugins, Templates and Languages tabs each contain listings of the installed extensions. We will cover the installation of additional components in Chapter 12.

Install, Components, Modules, Plug-ins, Languages, and Templates

Each of the tabs, for instance under Components, displays a list of the components that have been installed by default. You will see the version information of the component, the date of creation, and the author's information. To uninstall a component, select it and click on the Uninstall icon in the toolbar.

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