A long time ago...
Bitrix was made as new and advanced CMS, with it's own API for developers. Time changes everything, including developers. But not the Bitrix API. It is still compatible with PHP 4.
Magic packed in a phar, phar away...
Just download phar, include it and use as much as you want.
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Beatrix can:
- smooth corners of old
iblockqueries API, avoiding lots of surprises, i.e. pagination tuning (yes, Bootstrap is already included) - unify templating using modern and flexible Plates engine, no more header-footer sawing
- make you forget about awful urlrewrite.php crutch. Handle urlrewriting at any depth with any rules possible at Slim 2 routing
- crop images with Image lib, fr more powerful than
ResizeImageGet(). - run at PHP 5.3+ environments