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10-23-2008, 08:28 PM

[eluser]nizsmo[/eluser]
I've had quite some experience with both Symfony and Codeigniter, and both have their advantages and disadvantages. The following is only my personal experience and opinion Smile

Probably the 2 biggest disadvantages of Symfony are:
1. Its harder to learn (steeper leaning curve)
2. Its a bit heavy (fat, loads a lot of stuff even just to render a simple page)

There are a lot of people out there arguing that CI is way too simple, and to build an enterprise level website, Symfony is the more suitable framework. However to me CI is very flexible, and gives a lot of power to what the developer wants to do and is easily extensible. Look at all the libraries in the Wiki! Smile

At the end it does come down to what kind of website you are wanting to build, personally I love CI's speed & efficiency!

Goodluck and Happy coding Smile