codeigniter as compared to Joomla framework

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Depends on your definition of "framework".

Imho CodeIgniter is een application development framework. It provides you with the basic toolkit to quickly develop web applications. Joomla is a content management framework, which allows you to incorporate your own modules. These are different beasts.

Our efforts in ExiteCMS intend to bridge the gap, by extending CI with much of the items of your shopping list, without being forced into a CMS framework. A lot of development time has been spend developing Joomla, and for ExiteCMS we estimate about 3 manyears of work before the first public (non-beta) release. Not something you build on a rainy sunday afternoon...