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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 [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet