EllisLab
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Los Angeles, CA (2001) |
| Headquarters | Bend, Oregon |
| Key people | Rick Ellis, CEO; Derek Jones, CTO; Leslie Camacho, VP; Derek Allard, TA |
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Products | ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter pMachinePro |
| Services | EngineHosting |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Website | ellislab.com |
EllisLab, based in Bend, Oregon, develops software applications written in the PHP programming language.[1] The company is privately owned and has to date accepted no venture capital funding of any kind. Since the company's founding in January 2002, it has released three different applications to the public. The first, pMachine Pro, is no longer developed, but was weblog software that had both a free and licensed version. Although it's quite out of date at this point, the last version of pMachine Pro continues to be available free.
pMachine Pro has been completely replaced by ExpressionEngine, which is a more general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for storing data. It comes in three flavors, a free version named "ExpressionEngine Core," which is free for personal use, a "Personal" version and a "Commercial" version. The underlying code is identical in all cases, although there are several modules held back from the "Core" version.
The third application, CodeIgniter, is an open source rapid application development framework with particular emphasis on a very small footprint.
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[edit] ExpressionEngine
ExpressionEngine is a Content Management System developed by EllisLab. It is available in a free "Core Version", and in both "Personal" and "Commercial" versions after paying a one-time fee. The current version is 1.6.7. Version 2.0 was announced for release in "the summer of 2008", however this was put back to an unspecified date later in the year,[2] and has yet to ship as of May 28th, 2009. EllisLab has stated the new version of ExpressionEngine will be built on the CodeIgniter framework.[3]
ExpressionEngine is intended to be simpler to use than other content management systems; for instance, it requires no knowledge of PHP, and has extensive online documentation.
[edit] CodeIgniter
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| Developer(s) | EllisLab, Inc. |
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| Stable release | 1.7.1 / 2009-02-10 |
| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Web application framework |
| License | Apache/BSD-style open source license |
| Website | www.codeigniter.com |
CodeIgniter is an open source web application framework for use in building dynamic web sites with PHP. "Its goal is to enable [developers] to develop projects much faster than...writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries."[4] The first public version of CodeIgniter was released on February 28, 2006.[5] The latest stable version 1.7.1 was released February 10, 2009.
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks.[6][7][8] In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter "because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework".[9]
Kohana was forked from CodeIgniter 1.5.4 in 2007, as the community frustrated with CodeIgniter's lack of bug fixes and inclusion of new features requested by the community.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Ellis, Rick. "EllisLab History". EllisLab, Inc. http://ellislab.com/company/history/. Retrieved on 2007-05-21.
- ^ "ExpressionEngine 2.0 Delayed". 2008-09-08. http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/expressionengine_20_delayed/. Retrieved on 2008-09-23.
- ^ "ExpressionEngine 2.0 will be based on CodeIgniter". http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/preparing_for_expressionengine_20/. Retrieved on 2008-09-28.
- ^ CodeIgniter User Guide : CodeIgniter At A Glance
- ^ CodeIgniter User Guide : Change Log
- ^ CakePHP and CodeIgniter Benchmark
- ^ PHP Frameworks Benchmarks
- ^ Benchmark update: Cake vs. CodeIgniter vs. Kohana
- ^ Rasmus Lerdorf: PHP Frameworks? Think Again.
- David Upton, CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development, Packt, 2007, ISBN 1847191746
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