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Igniter-zen-i-rails, my new PHP framework

February 20^th, 2008

There’s some discussion in a thread on CodeIgniter about microframeworks, and there’s always some discussion about the newest, latest and greatest PHP framework. I know the market is a bit crowded, but here’s a little something I’ve been working on outside of my time at EllisLab. I’m a bit hesitant to release it to the world, since it competes directly with both CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine, but its so good that I can’t help myself. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as me. Here’s some highlights

It works on all versions of PHP (yes, even those not released yet)
Its FAST. Really fast. The fastest against anything I’ve ever benchmarked it against and is WAY faster then CodeIgniter.
Tiny footprint. The whole framework is only a few KB big.
Compatible with every database that PHP supports.
Pretty good documentation (not fully developed yet).
Very small learning curve. If you know PHP, you’ll pick it up right away.
Catchy name… I mean seriously, who doesn’t think that “Igniter-zen-i-rails” doesn’t kick ass? Crazy people, that’s who.
We’re corporate… but not too corporate.
Albatross!

Seriously, you should try it.

I’ve included my files so far. Its pretty mature so don’t expect any more development on it. You can download all the files here.

framework.zip

Update: John Fuller has built the first website on my framework, and even added a library! You can see it in action at http://woot.gexla.com/. Thanks John! What license is your library released under?

This entry was made on February 20^th, 2008 @ 18:15 and filed into CodeIgniter, Noteworthy, PHP.

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elitemedia wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 18:31

lol nothing more to say…

leo wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 18:50

damn! its really fast.

Lone wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 19:26

This is a great start - really need a screencast though to help those using it for the first time :)

alam wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 19:33

Wow, the most powerful php framework that I ever seen :-)

Cliff wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 19:38

Wait is it faster THEN a speeding bullet.

Nathan Smith wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 20:45

Haha, that’s awesome. Just drop it into the root of any existing PHP powered site, and it gets 10x better!

Yannick wrote on February 20^th, 2008 @ 22:57

Sigh...where was this 3 years ago when I was building my first PHP application.

Good Stuff Derek. When is version 2.0 going to be released?

R_K wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 0:36

It’s 100% theft! One to one code copy from framework I use!

przemo wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 1:38

Yeah, awesome!

Tesla Coil wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 1:49

Here’s my framework that just SMOKES yours framework, I mean, no empty spaces or unecessary line breaks!:

<?php //insert code below
?>

hendrik wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 1:49

You genius!

mr.petruccio wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 1:58

Yeah, reallt fast. I’ll use it

Michał Stempień wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 2:02

You’re to kind to release it free. It should have its own website and come in at least five different packages. I would set initial price to about 75$ per domain. Don’t forget about extra support levels.

Delapouite wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 3:22

I have a parse error on line 8;

Can somemone help me ?

Alex wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 5:59

Yeah just add this line somewhere a t the top :)

error_reporting(0);

Cliff Persaud wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 8:04

I’ve built an completely revamped offshoot of your framework, I hope you’ll support it.

<?php
//insert YOUR code here
?>

I’ll be charging people $75 per use and will be renaming it” Igniter-zen-u-rails Beta 2.0”

Eric Barnes wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 8:17

Wow that is just unbelievable. I mean how in the world could you be so forward thinking to create such a wonderful framework? I guess some just have it and some don’t.

Good luck with it and I hope the framework is purchased by Google for 100 Billion.

Rick Ellis wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 13:19

Must I remind you, Derek, that you signed a non-compete clause? You’ll be hearing from our attorneys!

Alex Williams wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 14:12

I don’t get it. It doesn’t work. Some please help!!!

Les wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 14:24

Dang it Allard! What are we going to show at SXSW now?

Derek wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 14:32

@Rick: Get over it man! EllisLab is a dying company. Seriously, I mean when was the last time you were even bought by Google anyhow? And when was the last time (before a month ago, and before a few months before that) that you even doubled your staff? These are the hard questions that I ask! And how are you supposed to survive if you keep giving your stuff away. Open source is is for punks.

@Les: We could preview my new CSS framework if you want. I call it Igniter-zen-blue-rails-print. Oh heck… I’m too excited, I’m going to release it here now!

<style type="text/css">
     /* styles go here */
</style>

In the future I plan to add support for external documents and many other exciting features. So I guess that blows my CSS framework out of preview… Hmm.... we could preview my new javascript framework if you want!

Duke Justice wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 20:34

I will copy it and remove your name from it. Hope I can get away with it!

Greg wrote on February 21^st, 2008 @ 23:48

Ruby on Rails fanboys ... you’re officially on watch!

adwiin wrote on February 22^nd, 2008 @ 0:42

Dang ! ....
the fastest one, I just tweak it and remove unuseable code.

done ! :D

TermiT wrote on February 22^nd, 2008 @ 1:43

It’s superb! :)

Jeremy wrote on February 22^nd, 2008 @ 7:46

Wow.. shocked and amazed.

Hong wrote on February 22^nd, 2008 @ 13:56

I’m fooled.

Mark wrote on February 26^th, 2008 @ 8:58

I need a lightweight Javascript library? Anything in the works?

Igor Felix wrote on March 02^nd, 2008 @ 7:30

Amazing!! Incredible!! I just can’t say how beautiful this framework is!

Sam wrote on March 03^rd, 2008 @ 14:46

Haha! Way to kill my excitement, jerk.

adamp1 wrote on March 03^rd, 2008 @ 17:13

I was actually excited, then I saw just 1 file and , wait a second.

That is a very fast framework, puts Rails to shame.

steelaz wrote on March 04^th, 2008 @ 22:56

I think I broke it or something, getting blank page here </sarcasm>

Bruce wrote on March 09^th, 2008 @ 9:04

I have 2 important questions:
Where is the manual?
When is version 2.0 out?
License, is it open source?
oops that’s 3..
lol

Greg wrote on March 09^th, 2008 @ 13:49

WOW, I gotta say. This framework is pretty fast but still gets a real boost from opcode cache. I strongly advise everyone to use it with cache on production environment. Although it is so great, opcode cache doesn’t improve its performance that much!

Seriously though. If for some reason you do want something faster and simpler than CodeIgniter that does more, it does exist :)

code.google.com/p/pal-framework

dedenf wrote on March 15^th, 2008 @ 9:32

INCREDIBLE!
*kudos*

Sharofiddin wrote on March 19^th, 2008 @ 8:16

I can’t download the file. It’s empty :( I want to try your framework

Derek wrote on March 19^th, 2008 @ 8:35

I can’t download the file. It’s empty :( I want to try your framework

Ah the interweb! I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

For the record, my framework has only 1 file… it requires a bit of author work, but nothing is more flexible!

Sharofiddin wrote on March 19^th, 2008 @ 9:19

Ya I saw, there was problem with my browser, how can I donate :)

Gabe wrote on March 19^th, 2008 @ 11:09

Hey, no fair, I’ve been using that framework for years already!

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