Their aim is not reinvent the wheel.
A good framework, with a few right instructions, will write the code for you with an high level of:
- security,
- abstraction,
- reusability,
- mantainability.
Then you will customize the code for your application.
CodeIgniter is a web development framework for use in building dynamic web sites, released in 2006 by EllisLab, written in OO-PHP and based on MVC architectural pattern.
An easy way to understand MVC: the model is the data, the view is the window on the screen, and the controller is the glue between the two. -- ConnellyBarnes (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ModelViewController)
CodeIgniter is FREE, faster than other frameworks and has a very light footprint; Rasmus Lerdorf, the PHP creator, endorsed it during the FrOSCon 2008, "because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework".
In the last years CodeIgniter had some troubles, the maintenance was at a basic level and there weren't major releases, but since October 2013 there is a new project owner: the British Columbia Tech Institute (Vancouver, CA).
A new development phase started fervently with a renewed team and a new growing community.
Yesterday, Dec 31st, the new project leader Prof. Jim Parry posted a list of further features planned for 2015 that will bring a new major release.
This is the magic of free software, good projects can never die.
What else?
Long life to CodeIgniter and Happy New Year!
Links:
Web site: www.codeigniter.com
GiHub Repository: https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/
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