Hello,
Let me first thank all the people working and developing the CodeIgniter framework! Really great framework.
We have been using it for 5 years now for the development of our Markeplace (2 people working full time). We started with CI2 and then upgraded to CI3 at some point. Every months,we add new features on our Marketplace and we now have a developer working almost full time on it. I mention it so that you understand that our Marketplace is now quite complex and offers as well Saas features to our users.
As you know, the security for a Markeplace/Saas is really important. So, we had plan to upgrade to CI4 and PHP 8 (currently we are on PHP 7.3).
Unfortunatly, it appears that the upgrade from CI3 to CI4 is a huge work. It is more a rewrite of the application. I must say that I was really desesperate when I learned that we had to rewrite our app if we wanted to stay up-to-date (and therefore Secure).
So, now I see two options:
1) Upgrade to CI4 to remain secure and be able to add new features. I think honestly that it will take us 18 months to rewrite everything. I am considering to migrate to Laravel as the framework seems to be managed more "professionnaly" (sorry if I hurt some people). We invest a lot of money on the development. So , I wan t to be sure taht the framwork will continue to well maintained in 3/5 years.
2) stays on CI3 for a few years but then we will have to stop adding new features as we now that we will have to rewrite in 2 or 3 years. So, clearly not a good ROI. I am not even sure if we can stay on CI3 but upgrade to PHP8. There was indeed no communication if CI3 will support PHP8.
To give you all the background, I am not a developeur but I code a bit, just to give a hand to our developeur when needed and challenges him.
Any advices or view would be really appreciate.
Many thanks!
