CI's next release estimate? / CI Praise

[eluser]thurting[/eluser]
[quote author="kabatak" date="1199843901"]
By the way here's a little trivia: I am a solid CI fan but somehow I sort of evaluated other frameworks during the past months including the Zend framework recently. It was good, however I still ended up saying: CI has all that I need and I love the way CI does it

For example in the Zend framework, you need to access $_GET elements using name/value pairs like
example.com/controller/action/name/value/name/value/name/value which has a potential to make the URL too long. In Codeigniter you don't need that name element anymore, just value! example.com/controller/action/value/value/value
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If I have my information correct, Zend Framework is planning a semi-major release in the next couple of months (1.5). It will contain a bunch of bug fixes and loads of new functionality - including CLI support and build tools. There is also a neat little proposal for handling Ajax in the works, but I don't know if that is going to make it into 1.5. You may want to look at the roadmap and make a decision based on that. Also, you can easily build your own router (you can actually build multiple routers) with ZF, so I wouldn't be too concerned with the format of the URL. At this point in time, CI is much more friendly out of the box. However, I have found that if you really dig into the ZF it becomes very easy to work with and is quite robust.