Karen,

This might come up in your discussions with the consulting company, but EllisLab, the company that maintains CodeIgniter, sells a full CMS comparable to Drupal and Wordpress called ExpressionEngine (http://expressionengine.com), which is written in CodeIgniter (which is FOSS).

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
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----- Original Message -----
> 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
> >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Karen Coyle
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> ph: 1-510-540-7596
> m: 1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet