Joomla (Mambo) Core ERD diagrams Fri, Sep 23. 2005
I have a small project that involves an implementation of Joomla (a fork of the popular PHP/Mysql based content management system Mambo). I started with Mambo and during the time I was configuring the site, the core developers of Mambo left to create the Joomla project. The reasons for this are discussed on their OpenSourceMatters website.
Suffice it to say, I find an Entity Relationships diagram to be very helpful in understanding the architecture of a database driven application like Joomla. There wasn't one available, so I decided to reverse engineer the database, and created these diagrams, which break the core database down into a few functional areas.
UPDATED At one time my pdf version of this was hosted by Joomla, but in one of the many moves of source code, the links to it were broken. You can get the pdf with all the views here.
User and Security Subsystem
Backend (modularity and extensibility) Subsystem
Content and Presentation Subsystem
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Suffice it to say, I find an Entity Relationships diagram to be very helpful in understanding the architecture of a database driven application like Joomla. There wasn't one available, so I decided to reverse engineer the database, and created these diagrams, which break the core database down into a few functional areas.
UPDATED At one time my pdf version of this was hosted by Joomla, but in one of the many moves of source code, the links to it were broken. You can get the pdf with all the views here.
User and Security Subsystem
Backend (modularity and extensibility) Subsystem
Content and Presentation Subsystem
Banners
Logging
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#1 - polarizer said:
2005-11-25 04:20 - (Reply)
Here[1] is another uml map.
[1] http://blog.riff.org/index.php/2005/07/21/10-concepts-in-mambo-cms
polarizers 2 cent
http://www.codixx.de/polarizer.html
#2 - Andrew J. Leer said:
2008-09-12 11:07 - (Reply)
Hey thanks a lot! I used this to develop my own module for Joomla.
http://haloscan.com/tb/leeand00/12_September_2008___aleer
