CodeIgniter (getting) popular

[eluser]oo00_Mr_K_00oo[/eluser]
I think you'll find CI getting more and more popular too .. take me for example, I've been a web junky for .. well a long time. I'm what I call a web hack - I learned PHP from online tutorials - but I never really became a solid developer - I tend to pull in around me web experts ... I can keep my pace with them .. but...

Along the way I've been introduced to Symfony and many other frameworks ... but I've never spent enough time in them to keep up my knowledge. Because I've come from a background of building EVERYTHING myself, I always struggled with frameworks that force you to do THIS or THAT or the next thing.

I LOVE the speed of development in a Framework, and for my last project I chose CakePHP - seriously, it was great, but this time I sat down to develop an app ... I've come off almost 12+ months of NO development. I couldn't get anything to work in CakePHP, I kept tripping up on the basics. YII wasn't any better ... and I thought you know what ... I've not looked at CodeIgnitor in ages .. lets look

It just works .... the way I expect it too ... the only thing that really gets me ... I can't $_SESSION .. but yeah, nevermind that. I LOVE DX_AUTH as well ... and then you see the likes of Elliot Haughin & his CodeIgnitor libraries ... and using these, and having NEVER developed anything in CI, within 2 hours I had a fully functioning, multi-account, Twitter tool running.

As an old web nut, who only develops when he can't afford to hire a real developer ... CI is a live saver!

PS: I'll be bringing my current CI app to market in the next week - a Bible Reading system - built from the ground up in probably 24 hours (that's 24 hours, not 1 day) ... it'll be in beta of course but you know .... I couldn't do it in any other framework (and yes I've TRIED!!)