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By: Geof

Geof — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:40:02 +0000

I am having second thoughts on codeigniter.The simplicity of it attracted me but its getting way too simple.Apart from datamapper and a couple of other contributions,codeigniter community lags behind cakephp and symphony maybe by a century.

By: Ben.

Ben. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:39:18 +0000

Nice list.

There is also a German-Speaking community at http://codeigniter.ch

CodeIgniting is fun

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:17:40 +0000

Steve, I hear ya! Every once and a while I convince myself to take another look at ZF just because it’s supposed to be the enterprise framework for PHP and such. But it doesn’t take me long before I’m arguing with myself because I can accomplish the same things in CI much faster and simpler. Perhaps I’ve just never had a project big or complex enough to warrant ZF, I don’t know. I guess I will revisit again if I ever outgrow CodeIgniter (which I don’t believe will be anytime soon).

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:33:38 +0000

Ohh I forgot to add the worst part yet… ZF doesn’t even give you the proper files to setup projects?! 1.9… lol

/zf.sh create project quickstart

Warning: require_once(Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader/RecursiveFilterIterator.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/scottamort/Projects/zf-1.9/library/Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader.php on line 31

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader/RecursiveFilterIterator.php’ (include_path=’/Users/scottamort/Projects/zf-1.9/library:.:’) in /Users/scottamort/Projects/zf-1.9/library/Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader.php on line 31
U52:bin scottamort$ ls ../library/Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader/RecursiveFilterIterator.php
ls: ../library/Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader/RecursiveFilterIterator.php: No such file or directory
U52:bin scottamort$ pwd
/Users/scottamort/Projects/zf-1.9/bin
U52:bin scottamort$ cd ..
U52:zf-1.9 scottamort$ cd library/
U52:library scottamort$ ls Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader/RecursiveFilterIterator.php
ls: Zend/Tool/Framework/Loader/IncludePathLoader/RecursiveFilterIterator.php: No such file or directory

lol

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:29:45 +0000

I’ve spent about an hour trying to get Zend Framework installed on my Mac with MAMP. I’m a developer and have all kinds of apps running along with MAMP for all my testing. Installing Zend Framework is horrid. You have to modify the php.ini include_path then use a command line utility to setup a project…. then setup a bootstrap file and an index file.. and so on. I finally ditched it all together. This is suppose to be rapid development. spending this long installing the framework made me decide against it completely.

I remember previously I installed CI (CodeIgnitor) in about 5 minutes and was up and running…. time to go back to put some time into learning the syntax of CI.

ZF seems like a waste and doesn’t make you want to learn it if they can’t make the setup/install process more simplfied compared to many other popular competing frameworks

By: paul

paul — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:34:46 +0000

I have just started to use it and was up and running within minutes.

What a contrast from the Zend Framework. ZF was a pain to install and was so difficult to understand. Even the tutorials on the official site didn’t even work leading me to endless frustration.

CI has cured all this. 10/10

By: Joseph R. B. Taylor

Joseph R. B. Taylor — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:11:14 +0000

It is hard not to enjoy anything that compliments
Code Igniter! Yes, hands down the best framework I’ve ever used. Nice and simple, use only what you need type of environment.

It was a great way to learn MVC and PHP all in one shot!

By: Prabhjeet Singh

Prabhjeet Singh — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:49:29 +0000

Good article. I just started learning CI. And believe me I love its style. Its really easy to do things with this for me. I have ZF. But it sucks while installation. And more than this article encouraged me to learn. Good to know that am on right track. thanks. and sorry for my bad English…