Hi peeps, just wanted to say hi, because I'm so happy to rediscover CodeIgniter.
Loved CodeIgniter back in the day, although I did not do anything big or advanced with it.
CodeIgniter 4 is looking great and it's still so fast and straightforward.
Professionally (and personally) I've mostly used Joomla! and WordPress for years and years. Magento as well (up to version 2).
Other than development, I've been a ecommerce-/marketing manager for years as well.
As an old school dev, I really don't want to learn how to create Gutenberg blocks etc. I never had the time or a reason to become a javascript wiz or learn React.
Although I will probably try Vue.js with CodeIgniter for fun.
I was a big CMS and framework nerd back in the day. Had to try almost everything
CMS's are great, especially for when multiple people are working on content. But for personal projects their structure can be a pain. I'm so used to fight WordPress that when using CodeIgniter I have to remind myself that it's OK to do things like I want.
Although both WordPress and Joomla! have CLI, task managers etc. Joomla! is probably my #1 (version 5 is really good and the code is modern), but the implicit demand and awareness from clients is WordPress.
As for the short term with CodeIgniter:
- Go through a bunch of tutorials / buy books or courses (if any)
- Create a few personal projects:
- As mentioned above, something that uses vue.js (admin of some sort/web app)
- API integrations
- Probably a Programmatic SEO project of some sort (probably data presentation from some dataset / AI generation or a combination of both)
- Simple CMS (essentially just admin for the projects, I'm not going to create a generic CMS)
- Something else?
Anyway, just a few random thoughts I wanted to express.
Thankful for the forum and I'm hoping to participate, going forward.
