Code Igniter vs Laravel

Things CodeIgniter does better than Laravel

1. It's a bit faster maybe

Once you put Varnish in front of Laravel, then that point goes out of the window.

One thing that I like about Laravel is that lots of packages are available for it.  Check this out as an example:

Code:

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2mvrek/laravel_5_scheduler/

I had to write my own scheduler with CI, as there wasn't one I could find.  But here it will be for Laravel 5.  and 5?  Damn, this framework is moving along and CI 3 still hasn't been delivered!

Just remember, that Laravel is a really well thought out framework headed and supported by some of the more advanced php programmers out there. Whether we like it or not, the direction of the PHP language and Laravel are moving along hand in hand. At the rate it's been going for the last few years, Codeigniter will become completely obsolete if it doesn't play serious catch up.

Agreed.  Shame we don't have some of those "advanced php programmers" here.  I may wait until 5 is out and then go through the framework source.