• What does Jelix mean ? Nothing.
• What is the logo representing ? It comes from a deep reflexion by his creator, Sylvain.
• When did the Jelix project start ? During the autumn 2005, and came out in January 2006 in pre-alpha version, when the site has been created.
• How was born Jelix ? From a desire to break and improve many things in the Copix framework, existing since 2001. And because this project was nearly abandonned during several month when Jelix started.
• Is Jelix then a fork of Copix ? Yes it is, but 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, or “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 main author of jelix has worked a lot on Copix project and wanted to continue this work with his new ideas. Moreover, it makes possible to show a framework that is different from others. Another reason is that the main author wants to dominate the world…

On what license is Jelix available ? LGPL. GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. The command-line scripts are under GPL.

• How can I contribute to the Jelix project ? We need people to make the site evolve, complete the documentation and tutorials, realize “general” modules (ex: news, forum, …). Any help is welcomed.
• I want to contribute to the code because I would like to make improvements, how can I do ? By consulting the Hackers' corner initially. Speak also with the developers (on IRC or in the forum, they are french, but they speak in english too ), they will give you information on the things to pay attention to, on the way of making modifications.
• I made a modification and I would like to integrate it in the official version, how can I do ? It is initially necessary to prepare a patch (with diff type tools) from the repository version of Jelix (if it is a just some lines modified, no need for a patch, even if this is better, just give lines and the concerned filename), and send this in the patch manager.
• I found a bug ! If you are sure of the bug, post it in the bug manager (create an account on developer.jelix.org before), else send a post about it in the forum.
• There is a mistake in the documentation, I would like to complete the documentation : The documentation (and this page) is a wiki. Subscribe to the wiki and click on “Edit” to modify it.
• I would like a write access to the subversion repository : The write access is given to those who contribute actively to Jelix. Thus it is necessary to justify of a certain motivation, and to have proposed some significant patchs. And it is also necessary to know how to use subversion…

• Is it possible to use jDao separately from Jelix ? No, there are too many dependencies with other Jelix classes.
• Can we use the template engine separately ? Yes, there is a standalone version of jTpl.
• Jelix can't generate a page in the XXX format, how can I do ? You only have to create an object that derives from jResponse, which is able to generate a XXX document and to declare it in the configuration. Any contribution in this way is welcomed, by the way.

• Is there a PHP4 version of Jelix ? No, Jelix uses many specificities of PHP5.
• I made a site with Jelix, can I advertise about it? Yes, on this page