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Revision as of 08:03, 14 April 2011

EllisLab, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware & Programming
FoundedLos Angeles, CA (2001)
HeadquartersBend, Oregon
Key people
Rick Ellis, CEO
Leslie Camacho, President
Derek Jones, CTO
Lisa Wess, Director of Community Services
ProductsExpressionEngine
CodeIgniter
pMachinePro
ServicesEngineHosting
RevenueUnknown
Websitehttp://ellislab.com

EllisLab is a software development 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to other weblog software of the time, such as Movable Type, Geeklog, and LiveJournal.[2] Although pMachine is quite out of date at this point, the last version of pMachine Pro continues to be available free.

The company's flagship software product is ExpressionEngine, which is a more general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for storing data. Licenses are available in three variations: a "Non-Commercial" version for personal and non-profit use, a "Commercial" version, and the cheapest option, a "Freelancer" license intended for small Web firms to be able to run their own sites. The underlying code is identical in all cases, although there are several modules held back from the "Freelancer" version. The company offers a 30-day money back guarantee, but no longer offers a free trial or an online demo for prospective customers. None of the licenses are free at this point.

The third product, CodeIgniter, is an open source rapid application development framework with particular emphasis on a very small footprint.

The company announced a fourth product, MojoMotor, a lightweight alternative to ExpressionEngine, at EECI2010 in June 2010.[3]

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a Content Management System developed by EllisLab. The current version is 2.1. 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
Developer(s)EllisLab, Inc.
Stable release
2.0.2 / April 7, 2011 (2011-04-07)
Written inPHP
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeb application framework
LicenseApache/BSD-style open source license
Websitehttp://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 2.0.0 was released January 28, 2011.

CodeIgniter is loosely based on the popular Model-View-Controller development pattern. While view and controller classes are a necessary part of development under CodeIgniter, Models are entirely optional and are rarely needed.

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]

MojoMotor

MojoMotor is a Content Management System developed by EllisLab. The current version is 1.0.6. MojoMotor was made to create easy-to-edit, brochure-like sites that use almost entirely static pages. Like ExpressionEngine, it requires no knowledge of PHP and has extensive online documentation.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ellis, Rick. "EllisLab History". EllisLab, Inc. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
  2. ^ Hacker, Scot (2003), "Put Weblogs to Work", Macworld: the Macintosh magazine, vol. 9
  3. ^ Smith, Travis F. "MojoMotor, A New Light Web CMS Is Coming Soon". CMSWire. Retrieved 2010-06-03.
  4. ^ "CodeIgniter User Guide : CodeIgniter At A Glance". Codeigniter.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  5. ^ "CodeIgniter User Guide : Change Log". Codeigniter.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  6. ^ "CakePHP and CodeIgniter Benchmark". Sellersrank.com. 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2009-07-24. [dead link]
  7. ^ "PHP Frameworks Benchmarks". Sellersrank.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24. [dead link]
  8. ^ "Benchmark update: Cake vs. CodeIgniter vs. Kohana". Pr0digy.com. 2008-09-03. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  9. ^ "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
  • Thomas Myer, Professional CodeIgniter, Wrox, 2008, ISBN 978-0470282458
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