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" <[email protected]>:
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
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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Mark Jordan
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:08 AM
To: [email protected]
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 [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
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m: 1-510-435-8234
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[email protected] http://kcoyle.net
ph: 1-510-540-7596
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
