From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks
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CodeIgniter
From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter prides itself on being a small framework, initially released in 2006 and superfast. It has been said that this is the framework that feels least like a framework. One of the first things I'll call out about CodeIgniter is that it has a considerably smaller ecosystem. Don't let that deceive you, though it's still a very capable and performant framework. Another thing about CodeIgniter is that a manual installation is well-documented. If for, whatever reason, your dev team doesn't use Composer, CodeIgniter is still here to get you going relatively quickly. I will use the Composer install for this video because it's pretty quick. Composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter. And I'll put that in codeigniter. And then I will hop into CodeIgniter and run php spark, spark is the CodeIgniter CLI tool, serve. And here's a functional version of CodeIgniter. Nearly all the work you do in CodeIgniter will be in the app directory. The routing is in app, config, routes. One of the…
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