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CodeIgniter

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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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CodeIgniter Review

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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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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Suleman Ahmad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Quick setup of MVC structure, someone can just install it and it's ready to use.
  • Great option for routing.
  • Security benefits.
  • Built-in libraries.
  • 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.
Sazzad Hossain Sharkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Consumes very low memory and CPU. Loads 3x faster than Laravel or WordPress. I have personally used other frameworks and comparison CodeIgniter is good to go.
  • Easy directory navigation. Even if the core folders are move, only changing the directory location from config file is set up everything.
  • Not available enough functionality to develop larger projects.
  • Because the source code comes with very low footprint, developers need to include essential packages by their own.
  • CodeIgniter is suitable for small and medium projects. but for larger projects, CodeIgniter is not a perfect solution. because of lack of functions available, it is hard to develop or customize requirements.
January 24, 2018

CodeIgniter and its uses

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • CodeIgniter - you essentially code what you need, using extra components to speed up your work.
  • Easily understandable and well documented. A great architecture for new comers.
  • Not compatible with newer versions of PHP.
  • More options now available on the internet that are the same as CodeIgniter also with a better version.
RANDHIR KUMAR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Enables you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch.
  • Provides logical structure, MVC framework, reusable interface.
  • Faster, Lighter, production ready, high adoption.
  • Lack of modern namespace, autoloader use.
  • Lots of modern PHP practices were adopted during this time, leaving CodeIgniter a bit behind in the times.
December 19, 2017

CodeIgniter Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Well managed documentation, complete package .
  • Easy to learn, free of cost.
  • Easy to use, and as it is open source you can use according to your need.
  • There should be some functionalities which can be used to analyze you data.
  • URLs are not structured properly.
Julian Estiva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • CodeIgniter is an MVC framework that allows us to organize our code in a manner that it is easier to maintain and update. If you are working in a team environment and building an application or website like our dashboard, then CodeIgniter is a great solution.
  • CodeIgniter has been a solid framework with excellent documentation. The only minor thing I have encountered is that CodeIgniter doesn't have a way to easily create pretty links with hyphens. The url is structured like this: domain.com/testing_here when ideally: domain.com/testing-here
December 13, 2017

Sturdy and Reliable

Benjamin Hale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great for quick deployment of structured web applilcations.
  • Easy to maintain and make changes on existing web applications.
  • Great knowledge base and community to allow quick and accurate answers when having trouble.
  • Could be easier to create applications from scratch.
  • PHP framework isn't for everyone.
D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • Since 2013 or so, Laravel has become the de facto PHP web framework, thanks to its PSR-7 support and modern design techniques. CodeIgniter lacks some of these modern style choices, and makes importing modern PHP modules slightly more difficult than would be expected.
  • Due to its simplicity, CodeIgniter is very forgiving as far as writing "dirty code" is concerned. CodeIgniter will let you make horrendous design choices, while still working "properly."
  • The CodeIgniter community has been declining in terms of volume and development time due to Laravel and general PHP design practices.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Can be deployed on a very simple web hosting meaning low-cost hosting.
  • A very short learning curve for web developers.
  • Plenity of documentation.
  • The project was stopped for a long time and some other PHP frameworks got on the way improving more.
  • Not enough plugins so you will end developing a lot of custom plugins.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The active record class allows creating readable SQL statements that can be easily understood across the team's varying skill levels.
  • The input class makes it easy to provide server side validation and scrubbing of user input.
  • As an MVC framework, separation of code and presentation layer is easily implemented.
  • While the active record class is nice, there are occasionally times where it is unsuited and a custom SQL query needs to be coded.
  • An authentication method against an Active Directory would be nice. Everyone wants single sign on these days.
  • Composer integration would be a nice to have
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