Technology

The following technologies help power The Portal To The Heritage of Astronomy:

Joomla!

Joomla is the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications.

To extend the core functionallity of Joomla! we use a set of extensions.

• Our discussion forum is powered by Kuena
• Our events calender is powered by JCal Pro
• Our image gallery is powered by PhocaGallery

PHP

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

MySQL

MySQL is an open-source, community-driven SQL database server.

Apache

The website is running on a couple of load balanced servers running latest versions of Apache and mod_python.