EllisLab
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Founded | Los Angeles, CA (2001) |
| Headquarters | Bend, Oregon |
Key people | Rick Ellis, CEO Leslie Camacho, President Derek Jones, CTO Lisa Wess, Director of Community Services Derek Allard, Technology Architect |
| Products | ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter pMachinePro |
| Services | EngineHosting |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Website | ellislab.com |
EllisLab is a software developer company based in Bend, Oregon, which develops applications written in PHP.[1]
The company is privately owned and has to date accepted no venture capital funding of any kind.
History
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. pMachine's feature list was similar to other weblog software of the time, such as Moveable Type, Geeklog, and LiveJournal.[2] Although pMachine is quite out of date at this point, the last version of pMachine Pro continues to be available free.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.
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 1.6.8. 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.[3] A public beta of ExpressionEngine 2.0 was released on December 2, 2009[4] and is based on CodeIgniter[5].
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.
CodeIgniter
| CodeIgniter logo | |
| Developer(s) | EllisLab, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.7.2
/ September 11, 2009 |
| 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."[6] The first public version of CodeIgniter was released on February 28, 2006.[7] The latest stable version 1.7.2 was released September 11, 2009.
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks.[8][9][10] 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".[11]
See also
Notes
- ^ Ellis, Rick. "EllisLab History". EllisLab, Inc. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
- ^ Hacker, Scot (2003), "Put Weblogs to Work", Macworld: the Macintosh magazine, vol. 9
- ^ "ExpressionEngine 2.0 Delayed". 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
- ^ "ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview". Retrieved 2009-10-29.
- ^ "ExpressionEngine 2.0 will be based on CodeIgniter". Retrieved 2008-09-28.
- ^ "CodeIgniter User Guide : CodeIgniter At A Glance". Codeigniter.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "CodeIgniter User Guide : Change Log". Codeigniter.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "CakePHP and CodeIgniter Benchmark". Sellersrank.com. 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "PHP Frameworks Benchmarks". Sellersrank.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "Benchmark update: Cake vs. CodeIgniter vs. Kohana". Pr0digy.com. 2008-09-03. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ "Rasmus Lerdorf: PHP Frameworks? Think Again". Sitepoint.com. 2008-08-29. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
References
- David Upton, CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development, Packt, 2007, ISBN 1847191746
- Leonard Murphy, Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6, Packt, 2008, ISBN 978-1-847193-7-97