| Derek Jones | 8ede1a2 | 2011-10-05 13:34:52 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | ####### |
| 2 | Credits |
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| Andrey Andreev | 355f9ac | 2014-10-29 01:33:02 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | CodeIgniter was originally developed by `Rick Ellis <http://www.ellislab.com/>`_ |
| 6 | (CEO of `EllisLab, Inc. <http://ellislab.com/>`_). The framework was written for |
| 7 | performance in the real world, with many of the class libraries, helpers, and |
| 8 | sub-systems borrowed from the code-base of `ExpressionEngine |
| 9 | <http://www.expressionengine.com/>`_. |
| Derek Jones | 8ede1a2 | 2011-10-05 13:34:52 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| Andrey Andreev | 355f9ac | 2014-10-29 01:33:02 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | It was, for years, developed and maintained by EllisLab, the ExpressionEngine |
| 12 | Development Team and a group of community members called the Reactor Team. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | In 2014, CodeIgniter was acquired by the `British Columbia Institute of Technology |
| Razican | 756e70b | 2015-01-27 10:35:17 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | <http://bcit.ca/>`_ and was then officially announced as a community-maintained |
| Andrey Andreev | 355f9ac | 2014-10-29 01:33:02 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | project. |
| 17 | |
| Derek Jones | 8ede1a2 | 2011-10-05 13:34:52 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | Bleeding edge development is spearheaded by the handpicked contributors |
| 19 | of the Reactor Team. |
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| Andrey Andreev | 355f9ac | 2014-10-29 01:33:02 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | A hat tip goes to Ruby on Rails for inspiring us to create a PHP framework, and |
| 22 | for bringing frameworks into the general consciousness of the web community. |