Pi Day Release for Pi Engine

The Pi Team is pleased to present the Pi Day Release as the first public release of Xoops/Pi Engine as the next generation of XOOPS in years.

Check out releasenotes for full announcement.

Pi Engine is a role oriented application development engine for web and mobile, designed as the next generation and a successor to Xoops. Pi is developed upon PHP and MySQL with selected third-party frameworks including but not limited to Zend Framework library, jQuery, Bootstrap and Backbone.

Pi Project follows the philosophy of open standard, open design, open development and open structure. Pi is born as a complete open source project and intended to build a sustainable ecosystem that benefits all contributors and users.

Selected features and practices:

1. Modularization for functionality and applications
2. Components for basic libraries and services for fundamental system functions
3. Theming for presentation and appearance
4. Design-friendly templating
5. DevOps oriented architecture

Third-party frameworks utilized in this framework:

1. PHP - Zend Framework 2
2. JavaScript - jQuery
3. CSS/JS - Bootstrap/Backbone

Welcome to check out the Pi Repository at github

Download the code as a zip file

Pi Engine is started by Taiwen Jiang (Xoops Project Lead and Dev Lead), Marc Desrousseaux (Xoops QA Lead), Hossein Azizabadi (Xoops Persian Lead), Kris (Xoops Council Member and Xoops France Lead), etc. You are welcome to join Pi Team.

Or you may contribute to Pi by submitting bug reports and feature requests to Issue Tracker.

Taiwen Jiang

Lead for Pi Development Team

March 14th, 2013