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Joomla! 1.5 and roadmap to future versions

Joomla!day Presentation

Luzern, Switzerland

Edite by : Ahmed Salem

15 November 2008

Agenda• What is Joomla! ,and what it can do for my website.

• How much Information I need to learn joomla

• Let’s take a tour with Joomla!

• Installing Joomla!

• Learn to use Joomla!• Managing the Website

• Managing Users

• Managing Content

• Managing Articles

• Managing Menus

• Managing Extension

• New Feature in Joomla! 1.6

• Get help and documentation

What is Joomla! ,and what it can do for my website

Joomla! is a Content Management System (or "CMS") which enables easy control and editing of the content and presentation of your website.

With Joomla!, you can do things like:

•Edit the content of every page of your site through a word processor-style interface.•Add new pages to your site using a point-and-click interface.•Add images and other media through Web-based uploads.•Control site elements like navigation menus and page layout.

Agenda

• What is Joomla! ,and what it can do for my website.




• Learn to use Joomla• Managing the Website

• Managing Users



• Managing Menus



How much knowledge do I need to implement Joomla! ?

-low level of technical knowledge is required-Joomla!'s installation process includes uploading files to a Web server via FTP, creating a new MySQL database, and then proceeding through Joomla!'s Web-based installation wizard. (Fortunately, many Web hosting companies include Web site control panels which make it easy to handle technical tasks, including adding a MySQL database, and installing Joomla!.)





• Learn to use Joomla• Managing the Website

• Managing Users



• Managing Menus



Joomla! 1.5Released January 22, 2008

Let’s Take a tour with Joomla

Joomla! 1.5 is easy to install

Joomla! 1.5 runs on many platforms

Joomla! 1.5 is easy to extend

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Joomla! 1.5 is multi lingual

Joomla! 1.5 is easier to administer

Joomla! 1.5 has new template features

• 100% control

• Custom layouts

• Template parameters

• Accessibility and standards

• Module chrome

• Module positions

• Default system template

• Additional Javascript

• Error Handling

Joomla! 1.5 is build to scale

Joomla! 1.5 is build to scale

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Joomla! 1.5 supports rapid development

• Easy to install

• Runs on many platforms

• Multi-lingual

• Easy to administer

• New template features

• Build to scale

• Rapid development

So with…

• 4.000.000 visitors and 19.000.000 page hits past month

• 1.450.000 posts, 308.000 topics and 230.000 users in our forum

• 590.000+ downloads of Joomla! 1.5 in 2 months

• 82.000 registered developers and 2.255 registered projects on Gforge

• 4.000+ registered (active) projects on our extensions site

• 60+ supported languages

This project rockets off!!!

Thanks to an amazing army of volunteers who provide support in our forum, developers who maintain Joomla! core code and extensions, the translators and all who help with documentation this is a great open source project!

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We’re still an incredibly young project!

• Started in September 2005• Most installs are still Joomla! 1.0• Joomla! 1.5 is growing very fast!

…let draw the bigger picture

Keep the following in mind..

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Joomla Available Examples

Who use Joomla!

www.joomla.org

www.tazzu.com

www.quizilla.com

Maintenance releases driven by Joomla! Bug Squad

• Test the patch before we commit approach• Around 55 team members• Team introduced mid- December just before

we release Joomla! 1.5.0• Maintenance cycle targets at 6-8 weeks for

a release

See also http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla%21_Maintenance_Procedures

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The Joomla! Bug Squad






• Managing Users



• Managing Menus




How to Install Joomla! 1.5

Steps to install Joomla please don’t change it

• Steps:Install Xampphttp://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe

unzip joomla into your xampp's www folder (eg C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla

• start xampp

• Create database “joomla”

• open a browser window and go to http://localhost/joomla

• follow the on screen prompts to install joomla 36


On screen prompts and what to enter in the boxes

Host Name = localhost

MySQL User Name = root

MySQL Password = your password or blank

MySQL Database Name = anyhting you like (eg joomladb)

MySQL Table Prefix = jos_ (this is set as default but you can change it)

Make sure that install sample data is ticked

Click "next"step 2:Site name = your site name

step 3:VERY IMPORTANT!! Change the admin password to something memorable (as this is only for testing locally I'd suggest setting the password to admin or password or similar

step 4:Remove or rename BOTH of the following: INSTALL.PHP and the installation folder (eg C:\wamp\www\joomla\installation\)

step 5:in your browser window click on either the "view site" button or the "Administration" button

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• Managing Users



• Managing Menus




• Sections, Categories, and Articles• Users• Web Links• New Feeds• Menus• Modules• Template

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Joomla! 1.6 (Sparrow)

Learn to use Joomla






• Managing Users



• Managing Menus




• Access Control List• Installer improvements• Improved caching• Only 1.5 legacy (1.0.x dropped)• Re-factoring to native PHP 5.2+ moving to

E-STRICT

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Access Control Lists (ACL)

• Sections/categories/articles; it will be possible to give people permissions on a subset of all available content

• Modules (and module positions) can be managed via the additional access levels

• See also http://jfoobar.org/blog/44-first-look-at-joomla-16-acl.html for a brief introduction of the 1.6 Acl plans

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Rule type 1 allows you to set permissions on certain actions, for example: manage content, manage banners, install extensions, etc. 44


Rule type 2 is used to give people rights to specific content items (sections/categories/articles).

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Rules type 3 gives permissions to actions that deal with access levels (public, registered, special).

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Installer improvements

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Improved Caching

– Module position caching•Caching on module level (was already possible in

1.5)

•Control caching on the module position level

– Optimization of handlers•Added Object handler

•Code optimization (speed improvement, bug fixes)

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Re-factoring to native PHP 5.2+ moving to E-STRICT

• Core libraries fully PHP 5.2+ native• Class re-defined for optimal use of PHP

5.2+ features• Fully object oriented

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Joomla! 1.5 debug info Joomla! 1.6 debug info

Localization

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So what is our race strategy?






• Managing Users



• Managing Menus




We can use help with…

Development

• Unit testing

• Functional testing; the Joomla! Bug Squad

• Joomla! Core framework

Documentation

• Help screens

• Technical documentation

• Documentation of Joomla! 1.5

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Translations

• Translation of installation,front-and backend

• Translate help screens

• Translation of documentation

Sites and Infrastructure

• Moderating

• Help answering questions in forum

• Re-structuring our site(s)

Joomla!

“All together”

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