CodeIgniter - Initial Impressions
About a week ago I joined the CodeIgniter community and was warmly welcomed.
Since then, I’ve been playing with CodeIgniter and so far, so good.
I have tried other frameworks in the past, most notably was Ruby on Rails. It took me over an hour to get the environment set up properly, even using InstantRails. When I tried to follow along with the “Create a Weblog in 15 minutes” screencast, I constantly had to pause it and rewind to catch up or just to understand what was happening.
On top of all of that, my host of choice will not host Rails apps…period.
CodeIgniter was a totally different beast. Since I already had XAMPP installed on my machine, installation was a snap. All I had to do was unzip the archive and pop it into a web directory. Done.
Then I tried following the Hello World Screencast and the Create a Blog in 20 Minutes Screencast and was able to follow along with each of them without pausing. I really did have a basic blog in 20 minutes. Fabulous!
The online forums are very friendly and I’ve been able to get past any of the snags I’ve hit just by doing a quick search.
So kudos to you, CodeIgniter. You just beat out Ruby on Rails as far as I’m concerned.
Hey Tara, cool blog! I’ve been subscribed to Derek Allard’s blog for a while now, just keeping up with his work on CodeIgniter. Also, I recently read Jonathan Snook’s comparison of CodeIgniter and CakePHP which was pretty interesting. Couple of cool Canadian web geeks.
— Brad Touesnard Apr 30, 10:54 AM #Hi Tara, I found your blog by surfin’ on Code Igniter’s forum.
I did the same tests as you with Ruby on Rails and some other PHP frameworks like Symphony and find myself kinda disappointed.
Then I discovered Code Igniter and a new way of making websites with a cleaner and proper way. Glad you joined the community, it’s pretty rare to see a girl in this geeky cosmos !
— Benjamin David Jul 12, 12:24 AM #
