Thanks, Dave and Mark -- this is exactly what I needed to hear. The  
"folks" are one of those extremely poor non-profits with almost no  
staff and zero technical skills. A consulting company is pushing them  
in this direction saying that Drupal is buggy and WordPress is ...  
well, I don't know. Dang! I hate being in the middle of this. I still  
think they'd be better off going with one of the "known" CMS packages.

kc

Quoting "Walker, David" <[log in to unmask]>:

> 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
> -----------------
> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf  
> Of Mark Jordan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 / Skype: mark.jordan50 [log in to unmask]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Karen Coyle
>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net
>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>> skype: kcoylenet
>



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