Is Codeigniter good?

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I asked my long time programmer friend to create a site for me in replacement to my crappy topcontentwriters.com and he suggested me to use codeigniter. It's been years that I never tried coding and I am not updated with other programs.

Is this a good alternative? I am tired of using wordpress, would this be okay?
Can someone point me some advantages of this program/language please.

Thanks a lot
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  • What do you need to make you feel your site less "crappy"?

    if you feel the look of your site is not good, it's not wordpress' fault. You can create/buy/find a better template.

    I can't answer you if codeigniter is good for you if I don't know what site are you going to build. Is it a blog? Is it site with few pages?

    Advantage of codeigniter:
    1. secure (since it filter most common attacks)
    2. developing with codeigniter is fast, especially when you write SQL query (I think it can cut 2/3 of the code)
    3. it teaches you how to code in OOP with PHP (I think this is important if you like to code or coding is your profession)
    4. You can apply a theme for it very fast (you need to build your own most of the time though)
    5. Lower learning curve than wordpress (for developer)
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  • Thank you very much. Safety is my main concern since I will be integrating it with a payment system..
  • I would look at Laravel if you want to get away from WordPress.

    The blade templating engine makes it super easy to create a layout and stick your pages inside of it.

    Both systems have "plugins" if you will. In Laravel they are called Bundles and CodeIgniter they are called Sparks

    I switched to Laravel from CI as I personally like it. You can add Sparks to CI to get similar functionality with Laravel.

    The downfall with Laravel is it requires PHP 5.3 or newer. A lot of hosts are still on PHP 5.2 so check your web host first. It is also a blessing with Laravel. They are keeping updated with PHP5+ as CodeIgniter is maintaining backwards compatibility with PHP4.
  • CodeIgniter is one of easiest PHP framework to learn but Yii is getting more and more popular.

    I suggest you learn Yii as this framework has many advantages compared to others. Just googling for yii framework to find more information about yii.
  • Comparing Codeigniter to Wordpress is a bit silly though, they don't even do a similar thing. One is a programming framework, the other a blogging engine. It's like apples to oranges. A better comparison would be Wordpress to Expression Engine. EE is built on top of Codeigniter and comes from the same company that created Codeigniter.
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    Is Codeigniter good?

    I asked my long time programmer friend to create a site for me in replacement to my crappy topcontentwriters.com and he suggested me to use codeigniter. It's been years that I never tried coding and I am not updated with other programs. Is this a good alternative? I am tired of using wordpress, would this be okay?