Karen, I don't have any direct experience with Codeigniter, but from what I can glean from their documentation, comparing it to Drupal or Wordpress may be a apples/oranges comparison.
Drupal and Wordpress are full content managment systems with core support for user accounts, writing content, applying taxonomies, and grouping content together. CI is a framework that you could use to build your site, but have to code every page and form. It's a smaller footprint for sure, but you're basically given the pieces and tools to build something from scratch. -Eric On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Mark Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > > ----- 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 >> [email protected] http://kcoyle.net >> ph: 1-510-540-7596 >> m: 1-510-435-8234 >> skype: kcoylenet -- Eric J. Klooster :: Software Engineer ericklooster <at> gmail.com :: http://rhymeswithtoaster.com/
