What is CodeIgniter?

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[quote author="cideveloper" date="1295564661"][quote author="huzzi" date="1295561990"]Stick with Adobe Dreamweaver, this is not for you.[/quote]

Ha. Thats not helpful. Codeigniter is a bunch of code that you can use in any text editor that will help your php syntax writing to be faster. Here is an example. You want the code to print out a bunch of numbers.

Code:

function test(){

for($i=0;$i<80;$i++) {
echo $i . chr(10);
}

}

$result=test();

In the above example, once you have written your function you can re-use it anytime by just calling that function and it will happily print out all those numbers.

Code:

echo 0 . chr(10);
echo 1 . chr(10);
echo 2 . chr(10);
echo 3 . chr(10);
echo 4 . chr(10);
echo 5 . chr(10);
..........

In this example you will have to write out the echo statement 80 times

Which is faster? Obviously the first one.

So that is in a nutshell what codeigniter is. A bunch of code already wriiten for you, that you can use that will make sure you dont have to code the long way. The database active record is a perfect example. Compare the 1 or 2 lines of code used in that compared to the multiple lines you would need to write in pure php.[/quote]

Finally three people answered with helpful answers. I thought for a minute that CodeIgniter did not allow noobs like myself.

Ahhh.. (the blind man once said) I kinda see what CodeIgniter is now and what other PHP frameworks do. It is easier to develop large web applications in. Thank you @RoyMJ and @sean_THR for your answers.