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expressionengine / 4th November 2009 / By Elliot
We’ve known for a long time that ExpressionEngine is built on top of CodeIgniter. But why is this important, and does it actually make any difference? Do we care? Should we care?
Well, at it’s current 1.6.x version I’ve never been that interested in ExpressionEngine if I’m totally honest. I’ve looked through the codebase, and after working with CodeIgniter for so long, I’ve just thought… ‘what a mess!’. It’s one of the cruel jokes of working with CI day in day out, anything not quite as beautiful just seems to look like a monstrous bit of code.
*Quick note* I’m going to be very careful not to break the beta T&C’s here.
After seeing the ExpressionEngine 2.0 codebase, and really looking into how closely it works with CodeIgniter, I might have actually changed my mind.
If you’re a CodeIgniter developer I would say this: You WILL be able to develop ExpressionEngine addons, plugins, as if you were just coding away in a CodeIgniter development. And this is where the 3rd party ExpressionEngine market will start going crazy.
Ellislab have just announced that they are now accepting developer preview applications for ExpressionEngine 2.0.
It’s been a long time coming – ExpressionEngine 2.0 was originally anticipated for the Summer 2008. But, as all good developers do, that line has changed to: “When it’s ready”.
For many of us, we first saw ExpressionEngine 2.0 in action when [...]
If you weren’t lucky enough to get to SXSW this year, don’t worry!
Andru Edwards from GearLive has posted a video of the Ellislab session. The session discusses the migration of ExpressionEngine to CodeIgniter. After the speaches and demonstration there’s a question and answer session which answered a couple of the points I’d been pondering about.
It’s [...]
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news / 22nd March 2008 / By Elliot
At South by Southwest a few weeks ago, Ellislab gave a preview of the new ExpressionEngine 2.0.
The demo shows the beautiful new backend in action, with some top-notch new features (I particularly like the full-screen editing).
However, the main announcement that stood out to me was this:
The big news of the day in my mind, is [...]
