CodeIgniter or Drupal or something else

[eluser]Brian Dickson[/eluser]
I've developed with Drupal for a few years and on the face of it, it MAY NOT be the best choice. It does have a lot of modules available for it, that could enable you to 'bolt together' and application quite quickly, but as a CMS, it's slow and can take quite a bit of time to comprehend when you need to dive in and get your hands dirty. That said, it has great documentation and a helpful and vibrant community.

If you have the devs with good ability and you need a straight forward app, then consider building using CI.

It all comes done to time constraints and depth of complexity.