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