What does Jelix mean ? Nothing.

What is the logo representing ? It commes from a deep reflexion of his creator, Sylvain.

When did the Jelix project start ? During the autumn 2005, and came out in January 2006 in pre-alpha version, during the creation of the site.

How was born Jelix ? From a desire of all breaking and improve in the framework Copix, existing since 2001. And because this project was nearly abandonned during several month when Jelix started.

Is Jelix then a fork of Copix ? It is more a new project assembling some parts of Copix, than a real fork. A large part of the code has been entirely rewritten and Jelix does not function the same way, even if the main principle are the same (modules, DAO, …)

Why a new framework when there is the Zend framework, and here your favourite framework ? Because, on the one hand, Jelix started before the public version of the Zend Framework, before this wave of new PHP frameworks, and on the other hand, the goal was to make the Copix framework, that exist since several years already and on which the main author of Jelix has worked a lot, evolve another way. Moreover, it make possible to show a framework that is different from others. Another reason is that the main author wants to dominate the world all alone…