CodeIgniter vs. Symfony

CodeIgniter

36 Reviews and Ratings

Symfony

28 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CodeIgniter	Score10 out of 10	N/A	CodeIgniter is a free and open source PHP framework, developed originally by EllisLab.	N/A
Symfony	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Symfony is a PHP framework from French company SensioLabs.	N/A

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CodeIgniter

Symfony

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Pricing Offerings
CodeIgniter	Symfony
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	CodeIgniter	Symfony
Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose CodeIgniter CodeIgniter is a great choice for small or medium projects that can be deployed in every kind of hosting, especially those oriented to low-cost hostings like GoDaddy. Symfony and Laravel are frameworks for highly scalable projects with hundreds of plugins available. Also, these … Incentivized Helpful? Sazzad Hossain Sharkar Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) in Information Technology at Akhaura Info Foundation (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose CodeIgniter CodeIgniter has a very small footprint. The source code is very small sized. Setting up a project is very easy. Follows MVC pattern. Consumes low memory and CPU. Well documented. Has a built-in forum for users to discuss and get the solution for issues. Periodically updates … Incentivized Helpful?	SensioLabs Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Symfony Symfony has become such a standard that many frameworks which previously may have been seen as competition, are actually adopting Symfony components to allow them to focus more on what makes their solution unique. Drupal 8 has replaced much of its low-level internal code with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Symfony I would say Laravel is by far Symfony's greatest rival. Laravel was actually a PHP framework that appears from Symfony, using only the packages that it really required. After some years, both projects have grown apart significantly, but you can still see Laravel using some of … Incentivized Helpful? James Hilton Director Of Development in Engineering at LabRoots (Publishing, 11-50 employees) Chose Symfony Symfony was chosen by previous developers, presumably for its flexibility and community support at a time when it was one of the best. Incentivized Helpful? Yasmany Cubela Medina Scrum Master And Development Team Lead in Information Technology at PrimosHome (Commercial Real Estate, 11-50 employees) Chose Symfony Symfony is strengthened by its amazing set of components. It is more flexible and strong, now with the introduction of flex on Symfony 4.x it's even more flexible and adapting for the future. Its architecture is robust and allows developers to focus on products. Symfony has … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	CodeIgniter	Symfony
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (14 ratings)	8.0 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)