User's Manual

Appendix D: Glossary
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 176 Version 1.0.1.
the next level and is a container for the third level, Articles. See also: Article
and Section.
Category Name:
The long name to be displayed in headings, e.g. Contact Our Corporate
Headquarters in Virginia.
Category Title: The short name to appear in menus, e.g. Contact Us
Check Out (an item):
When a user edits a file, they check it out. This prevents other users from being
able to edit the item at the same time, thus preventing loss of data upon saving.
Check-in:
This function, available from the Site (Front-end) for Registered users with editing
privileges, allows a user to make the items they were working on, previously
locked and un-editable, available again. See also: Global Check-in
Client-side Scripting:
Class of computer programming on the web, which is executed client-side by the
user’s web browser, instead of server-side (on the web server). This type of
computer programming is an important part of the Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
concept, enabling web pages to be scripted; that is, to have different and
changing content depending on user input, environmental conditions (such as the
time of day), or other variables.
See also: Server-side Scripting.
CMT: Acronym for Components, Modules, and Templates.
CMTP: Acronym for Components, Modules, Templates, and Plugins.
Components:
Content elements or applications that are usually displayed in the centre of the
main content area of a template. This depends on the design of the template in
use. Components are core elements of Joomla!’s functionality. These core
elements include Banners, Contact, News Feeds, Polls, and Web Links. Members
of the Joomla! community produce third party Joomla! components on a
continuous basis. They are freely available to download from
http://developer.joomla.org
and a number of other web sites. See also:
Modules.
Configuration File:
The configuration.php file, found in the root directory of your Joomla!
installation, contains global variable information specific to your own Joomla!
installation, such as database user name, admin password, etc.
Content Item:
A Content Item is an item within the Section, Category hierarchy.
See also:
Static Content Item
Content Management
System (CMS):
Software for dynamically managing web site content directly on the server.
Core Zip-file:
This contains the official standard Joomla! installation. This may be downloaded
fromhttp://developer.joomla.org
and various other web sites. The Joomla! core
software contains some built-in CMTP’s, but can be extended with third-party
developer’s add-ons.
Database:
An organised collection of records that you can search, sort, and analyse rapidly.
Joomla! is database-driven software, which means you can add, edit, or delete
content that is stored in Joomla!’s database.
See also: Record
Document Object
Model (DOM) :
Form of representation of structured documents as an object-oriented model; the
official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for representing structured
documents in a platform- and language-neutral manner. DOM is also the basis for
a wide range of application programming interfaces, some of which are
standardised by the W3C.
See also: DOMIT