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This article aim will be to provide an introduction to the content management system called Joomla, describe its main features and how it is made.

What is Joomla?

Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS) built with PHP under a GPL license. This o Content Management System can be used to create a website with dynamic content, using a MySQL database.

Features:

• Websites organization.
• Publication of contents.
• Scalability and implementation of new functionalities.
• User’s management.
• Websites design.
• Navigation and menu.
• Image manager.
• Modifiable modules order.
• Polls.
• Advertising.
• Statistics of visits.
• And more…

Which websites can be created with Joomla?

With Joomla we can create news websites, corporate sites, community portals, and we can also create with Joomla systems operating on closed networks (Intranets) to manage internal information (communications, users, etc) from companies or business firms. (more…)

Basic Implementation of a Web Service client with PHP

A web service is an application that exposes or publish its functionalities or methods through an interface. It works in client-server mode, other applications talk to the web service using messages in a standardized format. Essentially, the communication is the same as a web server returning requested data by a browser such as an HTML page, the only difference is that instead of serving up HTML in response to HTTP requests, it serves up SOAP (XML) responses to SOAP requests.

Four elements make a web service:

• XML

Standard format for exchange data primarily designed to the web. Its principal advantage is that a developer can define his own tags, this fix the way the data are read and validated by the client applications. XML schemas must be public so any change made in the application doesn’t affect communication. An xml file begins with this header:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> (more...)