Code Igniter vs Laravel

@g3n1u5

CodeIgniter and Laravel are frameworks in the same league in regard of built-in features. IMO they are both minimalistic by intention, this is the dominant culture of their developers and fans. They prefer easy starting.

If you are a "feature greedy" developer, i.e. if you want more out-of-the-box from a framework, you may have a look at Yii2. I think, it is getting interesting after its full rewrite (which was completed about a month ago). However I have not tried Yii2 yet.