Built for designers
| Compiled, ultra-fast templates Elefant compiles your templates into secure PHP code, so rendering is as fast as possible. | Dead simple, concise template tags Familiar syntax to other template languages, with some added conveniences for dynamic embeds and internationalization. | Clean, easy to use site editor for your users Elefant comes out of the box with a full-featured, 100% open source CMS for your users. |
Syntax highlighted editor with live preview Sophisticated in-browser editing with highlights and references at your finger tips. | Theme builder templates Download guides built on your CSS framework of choice (960.gs, HTML5 boilerplate, responsive) to get you designing faster. | White-labelling is easy Elefant makes it easy to offer your own custom-branded website editor to your clients. |
Built for developers
| Quickly built custom apps With all the tools you need, and a very low learning curve, Elefant gets you writing code quickly. | Extensively documented Including full API reference, cheat sheets, tutorials, code samples, and much more. | Strong security by default Flexible input validation and automatic prevention of XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, and other types of attacks. |
Very fast and low memory Elefant uses less memory per request than any of the major frameworks, so you can serve more visitors with the same resources. | Solid debugging tools Debug mode prints full traces with highlighted source code and variable state to help you fix bugs faster. | Minimalist MVC/Model2 architecture Elefant takes a unique but proven approach that helps minimize boilerplate without sacrificing code organization as your project grows. |
Shared apps to save you time From blogs to user management, events to search, Elefant saves you time not reinventing the wheel with high quality shared apps. | Thoroughly unit-tested Elefant's core framework is covered by extensive unit tests, ensuring a stable base to build on. | Internationalization Elefant apps are automatically i18n aware, with built-in multilingual capabilities and locale awareness. |