Is CodeIgniter development dead?

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[quote author="Alucemet" date="1369166358"]... but the PHP community totally rejecting it, and everyone who is serious about development moving on to Symphony, Laravel, Yii, etc, etc.[/quote]

Everyone is talking about how CodeIgniter is not facilitating for their needs, but I'm yet to see anything that I can't do right now that client needs me to do. No-one is actually giving real life examples.

Sure, PHP 5.2.4 (proposed requirement for CI v3.0.0) is old. But that will not stop you as developer using coding tricks for 5.4 if your hosting company allows it. Said that, one of the hosting companies I use is still on PHP 5.2.17!


[quote author="Alucemet" date="1369166358"]lest I lose my credibility as a developer. If you primary use CodeIgniter, who will hire you if they know what's up? Feeling defeated [/quote]

Real clients don't care how you deliver your work. They care about cheap hosting costs and working product / website.

If anything, they will ask for WordPress or Drupal, not for PHP framework like Laravel.

The only people that will be snobbish about tools you use are misinformed directors that insist of using "keywords" and "bulletpoints", if someone tells them something is popular, on technical grounds they won't know better.


I've been wondering about the same thing. Mainly because I find it really quick and easy to use, and I've been building a sort of a add-on package for it that is mainly for my own use, but at some point I would like to release to the public.

So, it is annoying that there is no excitement around CI anymore. But it's only been last 6 months maybe.

The question should be - what makes you work quicker. Is it better when you are Jack of all trades, master of none? Or if you are master at CodeIgniter, deliver your work quickly and can quickly solve any problems your clients might have without going - uuuuuh, I don't know?

So yeah, personally I think the only and one thing wrong with CI right now is lack of excitement and hype from Ellis Labs. If they would hype it more, it would "magically" be accepted as "cool" framework again.

Also, think about WordPress - 10 years old, but still popular. No-one is complaining the minimum PHP requirement for it is 4.3! They've only upgraded it to 5.2.4 this month.