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Hphp
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what is Joomla?

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I am new in php, get command to hander an outsources PHP project. I install XAMPP with NetBean on local WIndows ,and a few books, it looks like php is understandaable. but when I touch the project that I need to handle, The struct is different, they mention Joomal.
1.what should I do now? should I rebuild my system?
2. what is the advantage Joomla compare to XAMPP
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Re: what is Joomla?

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Joomla is a CMS (content management system) while XAMPP is a web server pack including Apache Mysql, PHP and PERL.

Joomla runs in a PHP + Mysql environment, so it would run under XAMPP.

http://www.google.com/search?q=install+xampp
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Re: what is Joomla?

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The most awful application ever. I have nightmares of times when I've developed a ecommerce on Joomla. Ick!
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Joomla can be a useful tool for appropriate situations, like anything else. It is excellent in terms of article and user management and the extensibility of the application is amazing.
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Re: what is Joomla?

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I hate it.





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Re: what is Joomla?

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if I only have experience on XAMMP, know I hand to hand a php project that run on Joomla, what can I do?
if I have to install Joomla, can I use the apach ,mysql ,php on my Window? or I just remove evething first? I realy don't want to do so.?
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Re: what is Joomla?

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Sorry, what are you asking??
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Re: what is Joomla?

Post by phpnooby »

jackpf wrote:I hate it.
Joomla has it's uses. I'm just not a fan of it's hard coded module layout styles.
They're terrible... Alter one thing and it alters several other things and then looks tachy.
Doesn't seem to be much individual control over the layout.
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Re: what is Joomla?

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Hphp wrote:if I only have experience on XAMMP, know I hand to hand a php project that run on Joomla, what can I do?
if I have to install Joomla, can I use the apach ,mysql ,php on my Window? or I just remove evething first? I realy don't want to do so.?
I think you have a major learning challenge if you have undertaken a joomla project and you have no experience with it. You shouldn't have to uninstall anything, but I wouldn't attempt to work on a joomla site, myself, even with several years of php development and many sites. As others have said, it is a complex content management system that requires quite a different approach to site development.
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Re: what is Joomla?

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i don't thing I have right to said yest or not, or wich project I want to take.

luckly, most part of the project is Web basic. their just chosse apach or appach under joomal tas server, for those part , you just copy and past under Xammp, and edit it, and copy back to server, it should work
but it did have small part , call news and event upload, need to connect , I guest I need to deal with this part, I need to know how they connect to db
can any one tell me what is the mean ,
how can I found out how they connect to db under joomal??
what is the following mean?
I require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );
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Re: what is Joomla?

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I can see the page successful install joomla but when I try to access the administrator page, I always be point to http://localhost/joomla_dev/installation/index.php
and see something like
complete remove whole fold and click here
Why??
or I just did not install Joomla yet , how do I know I install my Joomal or No
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