Are your 'folks' looking for a content management system, Karen?
As Mark just mentioned, CodeIgniter is a web application development framework -- that is, a set of reusable programming code that makes it easier for programmers to build applications for the web. The key terms there being "programmers" and "build."
That is a very different kind of thing from Drupal or WordPress, which are systems (that have already been built) to manage content for a website. You don't have to be a programmer to use either of those.
--Dave
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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with codeIgniter?
Karen,
I used CI for a project last summer, and thought it was easy to learn if you had done some PHP programming before and were familiar with MVC architecture, well documented, and had a fairly rich feature set. However, my impression is that it had a very small plugin/module ecosystem compared to Drupal or Wordpress. Before recommending it, you should review the categories under 'Contributions' at http://codeigniter.com/wiki to see if you can identify any glaring holes. But, overall, I'd say it's a pretty good PHP MVC framework (not that I've compared a lot of them).
Mark
Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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> I'm helping some folks find a new platform for their web site, and
> someone has suggested codeIgniter as being simpler than Drupal or
> Wordpress. Anyone here have anything to say about it, good or bad? The
> site is small and light weight but it does have a database that needs
> to be managed.
>
> Thanks,
> kc
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> Karen Coyle
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