Code Igniter Rocks !

Jun 9, 2006

Code Igniter

A few days back I discovered CakePHP and was very impressed with it. I started to code one of my apps with it but my impression decreased when i wanted to deploy it. After several methods and even communicating in their IRC, I wasnt able to deploy the app – total wastage of my time !!!

My search for a framework thats as easy (or easier ?) as Cake but having smooth deploy feature started again. I heard about Code Igniter before, but didnt give it much attention. Now I decided to visit their site. The one thing that forced me to give attention to it this time was this text on their site:

“If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks that require rocket science to understand, Code Igniter might just be the right tool for you.”

I decided to test it out and to my surprise, they are not lying a bit ! I was able to create a site for one client in super-cool way in a lot lesser time than it would actually take without it. While coding the app, I loved CI’s simplicity, its non-geeky style framework functions and their simple usages, the top-notch documentation and a good user base for knowledge searching.

Now I know which framework I should use for my projects. Certainly Cake is more robust framework than CI, but CI beats it by its simplicity. And I also love that !

There are 3 comments in this article:

  1. 9/05/2007anciwasim says:

    i have problem,how to deploy ,CI.application its giving same problem like cake.
    please help me

  2. 29/07/2007Dever says:

    I think CI is much more flexible than Cake (and it’s naming conventions).

  3. 8/03/2008smily says:

    I too love CI, it’s much much easier to use than Cake and co. Just as a side note: anybody who is looking into CI should also check out Kohana which is very similar since it’s based on CI but slightly better in some areas.

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