Ibuildings in Open Source

Ibuildings live and breathe open source. Wherever possible, we use open standards in our client projects – but we also like to give something back to the community. Our employees dedicate part of their working hours to various open source projects, and we also actively seek to open source components that we’ve built for specific client needs. This page is dedicated to the projects we're currently working on. We hope they'll be useful for others, too.

Achievo

Achievo is a flexible web-based resource management tool for business environments. Achievo's resource management capabilities will enable organisations to support their business processes in a simple, but effective manner.

Ibuildings is the main sponsor of the Achievo project.

ATK Framework

ATK is a special purpose framework, targeted at business applications. It allows you to build an application with very small amounts of code. ATK's focus on business features makes it an excellent framework for HRM, CRM, data management and CMS type applications.

Ibuildings is the main sponsor of the ATK project.

PECL Gmagick

Gmagick is a PHP extension to create, modify and obtain meta information of images using the GraphicsMagick API.

Our contributors

Vito Chin: Lead maintainer

PHPSpec

PHPSpec is a framework which provides programmers with a Domain Specific Language to describe the behaviour of PHP code with readable, executable examples that guide you in the design process and serve well as both documentation and tests.

Our contributors

Marcello Duarte: Lead maintainer
Marco Lopes: Contributor

Smarty

Although Smarty is known as a "Template Engine", it would be more accurately described as a "Template/Presentation Framework." It provides the programmer and template designer with a wealth of tools to automate tasks commonly dealt with at the presentation layer of an application. Smarty's focus is on quick and painless development and deployment of your application, while maintaining high-performance, scalability, security and future growth.

Our corporate contributions

Various fixes and features in Smarty's early days
Allegedly we have suggested the infamous {foreach} loop over {section}

Zend Framework

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors. So far, the framework has been downloaded over 10 million times.