CodeIgniter vs. Yii Framework

CodeIgniter

36 Reviews and Ratings

Yii Framework

10 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
Yii Framework	Score6 out of 10	N/A	Yii Framework is a free and open source PHP framework.	N/A

Pricing

CodeIgniter

Yii Framework

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Pricing Offerings
CodeIgniter	Yii Framework
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	CodeIgniter	Yii Framework
Considered Both Products	Open Source 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? RANDHIR KUMAR UI Designer in Information Technology at ANS Commerce (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose CodeIgniter Codeigniter's syntax patterns are expressive and elegant. Unit testing support. Well documented. but as CodeIgniter tries to retain backward compatibility with PHP 4, here comes Laravel to the rescue. It has good features and it is updated. Wikipedia has mentioned, “according … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CodeIgniter Although lacks installation using composer, its not difficult to install this framework. Because of its open platform, documentation and resources its easy to create a project and make it better. Can get a lot of help from the developer community who have used it previously. … Incentivized Helpful?	Open Source Miguel Useche Wordpress developer in Information Technology at Webdibs (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Yii Framework I loved Yii because it was similar to .NET development (as framework), it is very OOP and applies formal technologies very good (like OOP, MVC, etc), it's really stable and it's perfect for a corporate environment. Yii includes very good tools to reduce development and lets you … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	CodeIgniter	Yii Framework
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (14 ratings)	9.9 (2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)