# BEdita > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/BEdita > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/BEdita.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEdita > Source revision: 1305035173 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **BEdita** is an open source [web development framework](/source/Web_application_framework) that features a [Content Management System](/source/Content_Management_System) (CMS) out-of-the-box. Current version is *3.1.5*, released on 5 March 2012 under [Affero General Public License](/source/Affero_General_Public_License) version 3. A preview and "unstable" version is also available: *3.2.beta populus*, released on 5 March 2012 under the same GPL license. BEdita is built upon the PHP development framework [CakePHP](/source/CakePHP). ## Features BEdita is both a [content management system](/source/Content_management_system) and a [web development framework](/source/Web_application_framework). In the words of the authors, BEdita is a "modular framework that features a back-end Content Management System out-of-the-box".[1] ### Bedita as a Framework BEdita is built upon the well-known PHP development framework [CakePHP](/source/CakePHP): as a framework itself, BEdita actually extends CakePHP adding many features through more controllers and helpers and the [Smarty](/source/Smarty_(template_engine)) templating engine. It also combines some presentation technologies, such as JQuery, with the aim to supply a set of ready to use tools. From CakePHP BEdita derives the [Model–view–controller](/source/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller) paradigm: the multi-tier architecture assures the separation of data modelling, data flow/control and its visual presentation. Inside BEdita every information is stored in an object oriented manner. Upon this abstraction, the developer can build as many custom relations as needed by the project. ### Bedita as a CMS BEdita is also a complete [content management system](/source/Content_management_system), since it already comes with a multi-language back office application, able to manage several kinds of data: the CMS presents a number of modules, each related to a type of content. It is able to handle documents, multimedia objects and galleries, events, news, address books, blogs, bibliographies, newsletters and more out of the box. All this content is managed in multiple languages, [geo-localized](/source/Geotagging) and organized through different strategies: hierarchic tree, custom categories and [*tags*](/source/Tag_(metadata)). ## Releases ### A brief history For major release 3, BEdita has been rewritten from the ground up: all the previous versions were not publicly available under an open source license. The very first public release of a version 3 "beta" took place in May 2009. On 17 November 2009 a stable version of BEdita – 3.0 codename Betula – was released under [Affero General Public License](/source/Affero_General_Public_License) version 3, freely downloadable on the official web site [www.bedita.com](http://www.bedita.com) and some common [open-source](/source/Open-source_software) online networks ([SourceForge](/source/SourceForge), [Freshmeat](/source/Freshmeat) or [Ohloh](/source/Ohloh)). BEdita was created and is currently developed by two Italian companies, [ChannelWeb srl](http://www.channelweb.it) and [Chialab srl](http://www.chialab.it). ### List of public official releases Versione Code Name Data Note 3.0.beta2 NA 27 May 2009 first public release 3.0.beta3 NA 1 August 2009 3.0 RC Alnus 1 September 2009 3.0 Betula 17 November 2009 first official stable release 3.01 Betula 12 January 2010 stable release (bug fixes and minor updates) 3.1.alpha Ulmus 5 May 2010 unstable alpha release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.beta Ulmus 9 July 2010 unstable beta release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.RC Ulmus 20 August 2010 unstable RC release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1 Ulmus 7 December 2010 stable official release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.1 Ulmus 1 February 2011 stable official release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.2 Ulmus 1 February 2011 stable official release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.3 Ulmus 16 June 2011 stable official release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.4 Ulmus 31 October 2011 stable official release (bug fixes and new features) 3.1.5 Ulmus 5 March 2012 stable official release (bug fixes and new features) 3.2.beta Populus 5 March 2012 unstable beta release (bug fixes and new features) ## See also - [Free Software licensing](/source/Free-software_licence) - [List of AGPL web applications](/source/List_of_AGPL_web_applications) ## References 1. Official website. ["BEdita – Semantic Content Management Framework"](http://bedita.com/what-is-bedita) ## External links ### Official web sites - [BEdita official web site](http://bedita.com/) - [Demo: the backoffice CMS, a test site and a production site](http://demo.bedita.com/) - [API documentation](http://api.bedita.com/) - [Community forum](https://web.archive.org/web/20090621060135/http://forum.bedita.com/) - [Presentation slides](https://web.archive.org/web/20110917185417/http://static.bedita.com/2f/a5/BE-eng.pdf) (downloadable [PDF](/source/PDF)) ### Project pages from the open-source network - [Project page on Google Code with public SVN mirror](https://code.google.com/p/bedita) - [Project page on Sourceforge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/bedita) - [Project page on Freshmeat](http://freshmeat.net/projects/bedita) - [Project page on Ohloh](http://www.ohloh.net/p/bedita) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090722065553/http://www.ohloh.net/p/bedita) 22 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine ### Third-party publications - [Features and Requirements on CMSMatrix.org](http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix/bedita) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090802201131/http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix/bedita) 2 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine - [Article on blogfreakz.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20091121191758/http://blogfreakz.com/cms/bedita-semantic-content-management-framework/) - [Review and more on HotScripts.com](http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/bedita/) - [Review and ratings on CMSMatch.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20100114040241/http://www.cmsmatch.com/software/cms/bedita.html) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [BEdita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEdita) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEdita?action=history)). 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