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What is CodeIgniter?

CodeIgniter is a free and open source PHP framework, developed originally by EllisLab.

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CodeIgniter has been widely used by developers for its ability to facilitate rapid development without the overhead of building reusable …
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9 out of 10
December 19, 2017
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Beautiful, intuitive code and a strong framework for PHP which is stable. CodeIgniter makes your code beautiful and easy to comprehend, …
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Product Demos

Remember Me with Login and Logout in CodeIgniter

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Demo tutorial pembuatan aplikasi video streaming dengan android studio dan codeigniter

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Android CRUD with CodeIgniter Restful Web Services and MySQL - Part 1

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Inventory Management System in PHP/Codeigniter Installation Demo

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Multiple Language in Codeigniter

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Install AdminLTE Template in CodeIgniter 4

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CodeIgniter has been widely used by developers for its ability to facilitate rapid development without the overhead of building reusable components. Users have found the framework to be smooth, with best features and easy to use. It has been leveraged to build various products, admin panels, and themes, catering to the needs of small and medium-sized projects. Its lightweight nature ensures fast performance, making it a preferred choice for web development firms that rely on it as the backbone for multiple active projects.

One of the key advantages of CodeIgniter is its ability to abstract tedious tasks like database queries and authentication, saving users and programmers hours of time. This makes it well-suited for API development in Android applications, such as school management and results checking. Additionally, CodeIgniter is highly compatible with shared hosting servers, reducing server costs for businesses. It has been widely implemented as the main platform for customer and internal portal sites, as well as being used to develop internal reporting dashboards that provide crucial insights for organizations.

The flexibility of CodeIgniter shines through in its ability to create customized intranet/portals for multiple clients with ease. It has also gained traction in the education sector, serving as a content management system at universities due to its easy customizations and integrations. Marketing teams have successfully utilized CodeIgniter to build micro-sites and recruit students efficiently. Moreover, its low learning curve and comprehensive documentation have been appreciated by users. With its architecture, documentation, and strong developer community support, CodeIgniter has become a reliable choice for visualizing data through custom dashboards.

The release of CodeIgniter 4 brought significant improvements and narrowed the gap with competitor frameworks like Laravel and Symfony. Its intuitive nature helps developers quickly develop applications while maintaining clean and structured code. Users have successfully built various products and projects using CodeIgniter ranging from Content Management Systems, Order Management Systems, to Warehouse Management Systems. Whether it's for small or big projects, CodeIgniter proves to be versatile and easy to learn with its comprehensive documentation.

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Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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Our whole application is written on CodeIgniter. At first, we started with its 3rd version. After 3 years, we rewrote the whole application with CodeIgniter 4. [CodeIgniter] 4 brought a lot on the plate and decreased the gap between it and the other competitor framework such as laravel or Symfony. CodeIgniter can help developers develop applications very fast and its very structured MVC approach helps keep the code neat and clean.
  • Superfast
  • Lightweight
  • Easy to deploy
  • Auto deployment pipeline
  • Library support
  • ORM
Use CodeIgniter if you need to implement your project very fast and want to follow the MVC approach. Also, if you have space constraint, [CodeIgniter] is a very good choice because it's very lightweight. It has most of the modern solutions, from composer to ENV variable, multi server setup, everything.
  • Helpful documentation
  • Lightweight
  • Modern features
  • Secured application
  • Easy deployment means more bug fix
  • Helpful for newbies. Thus less training for freshers
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.
September 27, 2021

Great feature set

Jay Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
CodeIgniter is our main platform for our customer portal site and our internal portal site.
  • MVC
  • Documentation
  • More updates to follow PHP current releases
  • Better issue reporting
We use an expression engine for our main website which is built on CodeIgniter. This is one of the main reasons we chose CodeIgniter. It has worked well for our needs. Not widely supported by third party addons but we have made it work with several APIs from other vendors such as twillio, ShipStation, SugarCRM.
  • MVC
  • Flexibility
  • Light weight
  • Form validation
  • Provide a customer-facing portal site to allow our customers to register for events that integrate with our backend system also written in CodeIgniter
  • Develop an internal ERP integrated with our customer facing site.
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.
ShipStation, Sugar Sell (SugarCRM), Twilio
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