CodeIgniter or Drupal?

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I believe Rubiz' question is a valid one -- there is a choice to be made between working with MVC frameworks or CMS frameworks.

I'm learning CodeIgniter for the first time after working with Drupal for a few years. I strongly recommend CodeIgniter over Drupal, and for that matter MVC frameworks in general over CMS frameworks.

Drupal is clunky and awkward, and Drupal 7 is only a minor improvement over Drupal 6 in this area (this is what convinced me it was time to look elsewhere). Drupal and Joomla add considerable overhead in terms of extra/unnecessary code. Drupal sites are generally slow unless considerable effort is made to optimize, which defeats its time-saving benefits.

For me, the appeal of CodeIgniter is how closely it resembles simple, reusable code organized into include files. I believe this should be the aspiration of anyone who works with PHP professionally. It is nearly the equivalent of writing and referencing the code yourself across projects -- but leveraging a community of programmers and best practices.