CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CodeIgniter	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	CodeIgniter is a free and open source PHP framework, developed originally by EllisLab.	N/A

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	CodeIgniter
Considered Both Products	CodeIgniter Verified User Director Chose CodeIgniter CodeIgniter is a lot easier to implement than Laravel. Even though laravel has a lot of other features, they weren't really important for me. I cared about fast deployment and product release and CodeIgniter helped me do it perfectly. Incentivized Helpful? Jay Moore CIO Chose CodeIgniter We chose CodeIgniter for main reason our main site is using an expression engine which is a CMS on top of CodeIgniter. It also had all the features we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Suleman Ahmad Senior Software Developer - NodeJS/Express, Angular, MVC Framework Chose CodeIgniter We have used the express framework as well, but the issue is slow development in express because it takes a lot of time to restart the server on every change on the backend. Incentivized Helpful? Sazzad Hossain Sharkar Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) Chose CodeIgniter CodeIgniter has a very small footprint. The source code is very small sized. Setting up a project is very easy. Follows MVC pattern. Consumes low memory and CPU. Well documented. Has a built-in forum for users to discuss and get the solution for issues. Periodically updates … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose CodeIgniter Because of CodeIgniter's fast speed and well-developed architecture, it stacks up against the rest of the PHP frameworks. CodeIgniter can also be modified to use the Hierarchical Model View Controller (HMVC) development pattern which allows CodeIgniter developers to group … Incentivized Helpful? RANDHIR KUMAR UI Designer Chose CodeIgniter Codeigniter's syntax patterns are expressive and elegant. Unit testing support. Well documented. but as CodeIgniter tries to retain backward compatibility with PHP 4, here comes Laravel to the rescue. It has good features and it is updated. Wikipedia has mentioned, “according … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose CodeIgniter Although lacks installation using composer, its not difficult to install this framework. Because of its open platform, documentation and resources its easy to create a project and make it better. Can get a lot of help from the developer community who have used it previously. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose CodeIgniter We chose CodeIgniter because although it has a steep learning curve, ultimately it suited our needs better in terms of how well it scales for larger applications. Incentivized Helpful? Julian Estiva Web Developer Chose CodeIgniter In my experience, I tinkered with Zend and Cake initially before CodeIgniter. I recall getting stuck multiple occasions with Zend and Cake when I first started learning the MVC architecture. When I found CodeIgniter, the experience was different and it was much easier to learn. … Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Hale Director of Development Chose CodeIgniter Similar to the other frameworks, CodeIgniter was chosen due to its community and popularity. It has much of the same aspects of the other frameworks we evaluated, except .Net which obviously doesn't use PHP. CakePHP has a CakeBake function that we wish we had with CodeIgniter, … Incentivized Helpful? D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. Owner and CEO Chose CodeIgniter Laravel is the de facto upgrade path for any and all web developers coming from any version of CodeIgniter. However, Laravel brings a level of complexity that can be intimidating to new developers or wasteful to experienced developers with simple requirements. In terms of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose CodeIgniter CodeIgniter is a great choice for small or medium projects that can be deployed in every kind of hosting, especially those oriented to low-cost hostings like GoDaddy. Symfony and Laravel are frameworks for highly scalable projects with hundreds of plugins available. Also, these … Incentivized Helpful? JW Jim Wyse Web Services Manager Chose CodeIgniter Both older and new versions of CodeIgniter lack installation via Composer. Laravel is our other framework of choice; its installation, updates, and addition of third party packages are significantly easier with Composer. CodeIgniter is our primary framework as our CMS is build … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Open source Pro Server side
Top Cons	Minus Steep learning curve Minus Sql query Minus Day by day

Best Alternatives
	CodeIgniter
Small Businesses	Laravel PHP Framework Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Laravel PHP Framework Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	CodeIgniter
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (14 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CodeIgniter
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source The input class makes it easy to provide server-side validation and scrubbing of user input. Setting Error messages. It doesn't require constant command-line access, It's great because it has a strong community and excellent documentation, but the problem is that it tries to retain backward compatibility with PHP 4 and therefore lacks a lot of "standard" features modern frameworks have such as auto-loading. Incentivized RANDHIR KUMAR UI Designer Read full review
Pros	Open Source CodeIgniter is an excellent tool when a simple database API is needed. Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite are all abstracted into a simple-to-use CodeIgniter's simplicity is truly its best feature, because you are able to create controllers and methods based on the http://www.example//, and immediately being developing the application. Flexibility is also another developer-friendly feature, because developers are able to design their application in any way - controllers, models, libraries, and helpers can be located anywhere or not used at all. Incentivized David Lemcoe Jr. Owner and CEO Read full review
Cons	Open Source Faced some issue of session management, so that's why we used the Core Session library for that. It would be great if we could improve it a little bit. Frameworks provide the option to setup all getters/setters, so having this option in it is a great idea. Incentivized Suleman Ahmad Senior Software Developer - NodeJS/Express, Angular, MVC Framework Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Open Source CodeIgniter has a very small footprint. The source code is very small sized. Setting up a project is very easy. Follows MVC pattern. Consumes low memory and CPU. Well documented. Has a built-in forum for users to discuss and get the solution for issues. Periodically updates versions and patch fixes etc. Incentivized Sazzad Hossain Sharkar Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) Read full review
Return on Investment	Open Source Because of quick turnaround on portals/intranets, it was easy to offer this as an option to clients. As there is no cost associated with this framework, it was great not having to worry about purchasing or licensing. (MIT License). Community support helps in that there are no ongoing support contracts or costs. No direct representative for one-on-one support, if needed. This can cut into time used on projects. Incentivized Benjamin Hale Director of Development Read full review
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