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Thanks Prasadh. I think you're right and I'll seek professional help. <br />
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Thanks for the offer, but we have a company a few hundred meters away the I'd like to use instead. They are really who we should have used in the first place!
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Thanks Prasadh. I think you're right and I'll seek professional help.

Thanks for the offer, but we have a company a few hundred meters away the I'd like to use instead. They are really who we should have used in the first place!

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Yes.. using a company which is very near is the best option.
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Yes.. using a company which is very near is the best option.

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Hi, some time ago our sales guy employed a friend to change our company website from a simple fixed website to a full blown PHP-MySQL Joomla based website. This friend is no longer contactable and now we have a website no one can edit, and it has been hacked with the addition of links to Viagra websites.<br />
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I'm the IT Manager with obvious networking skills and I can write HTML ok, I know SQL server but I've never had a crack at a PHP - MySQL website of any sort let alone Joomla. I'd love to have a go at this because learning this is on my to do list, but in truth I just have to get this fixed and move on. Is there a simple way to edit a Joomla website in-situ or do I have to download the website and export the databases ... or do I just hire a professional?
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Hi, some time ago our sales guy employed a friend to change our company website from a simple fixed website to a full blown PHP-MySQL Joomla based website. This friend is no longer contactable and now we have a website no one can edit, and it has been hacked with the addition of links to Viagra websites.

I'm the IT Manager with obvious networking skills and I can write HTML ok, I know SQL server but I've never had a crack at a PHP - MySQL website of any sort let alone Joomla. I'd love to have a go at this because learning this is on my to do list, but in truth I just have to get this fixed and move on. Is there a simple way to edit a Joomla website in-situ or do I have to download the website and export the databases ... or do I just hire a professional?

Joomla Editing

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS. Written in PHP, Joomla uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL, MS SQL  or PostgreSQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, search, and support for language internationalization.