Joomla được phân phối như một file nén, và tên phản ánh số phiên bản - một cái gì đó như . Số phiên bản thay đổi thường xuyên để phản ánh các nâng cấp nhỏ. Để làm việc với các ví dụ trong cuốn sách này | 18 Part I Getting Started with Joomla Downloading the software w Joomla is distributed as a compressed file and the name reflects the version number something like . The version number changes often to reflect small upgrades. To work with the examples in this book make sure to download Version or later. If you re downloading Joomla to a Windows machine click the ZIP link on the download page. Your browser asks whether it should open or save the .zip file. Choose the Save option and save the .zip file to your hard disk in a directory named something like c joomla. If you re using an operating system other than Windows click the Download Other Joomla Packages link then select the appropriate or file. Your choice depends on your system. When your browser asks whether it should save or open the file choose the Save option and save the compressed file to your hard disk. The actual download is surprisingly small just 6MB or less. A lot of functionality is packed into that small package and to unleash it you have to uncompress it. Unzipping the software Use your favorite uncompression utility such as WinZip for Windows www. to extract all the files inside the compressed download. Joomla opens as a bunch of directories and files as you see in Figure 2-1. We re not going to describe in tedious detail what each directory contains because Joomla handles the details for you. Besides we rarely work with the directory structure directly in this book and when we do we tell you exactly which directory you need to work with . Checking minimum requirements You can install Joomla online on an ISP server or offline on your own machine but either way you have to meet the minimum Joomla requirements so that you can actually run the program. Online requirements If you re installing Joomla on an ISP server check out the minimum Joomla requirements listed in Table 2-1. You need support for the PHP scripting .
