Joomla! is a free and open source award winning content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web andintranets. It comprises a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.
Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQLdatabase, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
Within its first year of release, Joomla had been downloaded 2.5 million times.[citation needed] There are over 6,000 free and commercial plug-ins available from the official Joomla! Extension Directory and more available from other sources.