Codeigniter compared to Zend Framework 2

[eluser]Harold Villacorte[/eluser]
CI is fully object oriented with some procedural code (helpers) included to provide nicer syntax. It is full stack so a lot of what you would be writing in ZF2 is already written in CI. Many things that we take for granted in CI like session handling, form validation, and all the security stuff you would have put together yourself in ZF2 and in doing so you will have to familiarize yourself with stuff you don't normally see in CI code. In addition to the Php 5.3 features you will see features like abstract classes, interfaces, type hinting and stuff like that we normally don't use in CI. To get started with ZF2 all you have to do is clone the skeleton application then run through whatever tutorials you can find then just take your time with it, it's not that hard.