CodeIgniter Educational Services Reviews & Insights

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36 Reviews and Ratings

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CodeIgniter has been widely used by developers for its ability to facilitate rapid development without the overhead of building reusable components. Users have found the framework to be smooth, with best features and easy to use. It has been leveraged to build various products, admin panels, and themes, catering to the needs of small and medium-sized projects. Its lightweight nature ensures fast performance, making it a preferred choice for web development firms that rely on it as the backbone for multiple active projects.

One of the key advantages of CodeIgniter is its ability to abstract tedious tasks like database queries and authentication, saving users and programmers hours of time. This makes it well-suited for API development in Android applications, such as school management and results checking. Additionally, CodeIgniter is highly compatible with shared hosting servers, reducing server costs for businesses. It has been widely implemented as the main platform for customer and internal portal sites, as well as being used to develop internal reporting dashboards that provide crucial insights for organizations.

The flexibility of CodeIgniter shines through in its ability to create customized intranet/portals for multiple clients with ease. It has also gained traction in the education sector, serving as a content management system at universities due to its easy customizations and integrations. Marketing teams have successfully utilized CodeIgniter to build micro-sites and recruit students efficiently. Moreover, its low learning curve and comprehensive documentation have been appreciated by users. With its architecture, documentation, and strong developer community support, CodeIgniter has become a reliable choice for visualizing data through custom dashboards.

The release of CodeIgniter 4 brought significant improvements and narrowed the gap with competitor frameworks like Laravel and Symfony. Its intuitive nature helps developers quickly develop applications while maintaining clean and structured code. Users have successfully built various products and projects using CodeIgniter ranging from Content Management Systems, Order Management Systems, to Warehouse Management Systems. Whether it's for small or big projects, CodeIgniter proves to be versatile and easy to learn with its comprehensive documentation.

CodeIgniter Reviews

6 Reviews

Educational ServicesHigher Education1Education Management4E-Learning1

CodeIgniter - Best for hurried development

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our whole application is written on CodeIgniter. At first, we started with its 3rd version. After 3 years, we rewrote the whole application with CodeIgniter 4. [CodeIgniter] 4 brought a lot on the plate and decreased the gap between it and the other competitor framework such as laravel or Symfony. CodeIgniter can help developers develop applications very fast and its very structured MVC approach helps keep the code neat and clean.

Pros

Superfast
Lightweight
Easy to deploy

Cons

Auto deployment pipeline
Library support
ORM

Likelihood to Recommend

Use CodeIgniter if you need to implement your project very fast and want to follow the MVC approach. Also, if you have space constraint, [CodeIgniter] is a very good choice because it's very lightweight. It has most of the modern solutions, from composer to ENV variable, multi server setup, everything.

Alternatives

Laravel PHP Framework

CodeIgniter is a lot easier to implement than Laravel. Even though laravel has a lot of other features, they weren't really important for me. I cared about fast deployment and product release and CodeIgniter helped me do it perfectly.

Verified User

Director in Engineering (E-Learning company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

My working experience with CodeIgniter Framework

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 2, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CodeIgniter is a great PHP framework for web development. We have used this framework for around 2 years. For small and medium projects like ours it work like magic. Our API development department was very happy with API development for Android applications and these work as expected.

We have used CodeIgniter for our Android API development to send and receive user inputs for school management and results checking facility. One of our media websites was running with CodeIgniter.

It's a very good framework for shared hosting servers. Because CodeIgniter's source code is smaller and does not require high memory or CPU, CodeIgniter helps us to reduce server costs also.

Pros

Consumes very low memory and CPU. Loads 3x faster than Laravel or WordPress. I have personally used other frameworks and comparison CodeIgniter is good to go.
Easy directory navigation. Even if the core folders are move, only changing the directory location from config file is set up everything.

Cons

Not available enough functionality to develop larger projects.
Because the source code comes with very low footprint, developers need to include essential packages by their own.
CodeIgniter is suitable for small and medium projects. but for larger projects, CodeIgniter is not a perfect solution. because of lack of functions available, it is hard to develop or customize requirements.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have small or medium level sites to develop, CodeIgniter does perform very well. Although, developing blog and news portal type websites, it is very good and reliable to use.

Projects are a high requirement, CodeIgniter needs to customize a lot. Like developing an online shopping cart with CodeIgniter requires a lot of functionality. Complex functionality requires adding more assets for it to function properly and the codebase is then larger than expected.

Alternatives

Laravel PHP Framework, CakePHP, Symfony and Yii Framework

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 versions and patch fixes etc.

Sazzad Hossain Sharkar

Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) in Information Technology at Akhaura Info Foundation (Education Management, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

CodeIgniter - Great for All Web Applications

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CodeIgniter to help visualize data from our clients. We've created a custom dashboard to present the data in a way that's easy to read quickly.

Pros

Learning CodeIgniter is really simple. The documentation is helpful.
It forces a good MVC structure.

Cons

CodeIgniter has a somewhat steep learning curve.

Likelihood to Recommend

CodeIgniter is great for building quick, scalable web applications.

Alternatives

CakePHP and Zend Framework

We chose CodeIgniter because although it has a steep learning curve, ultimately it suited our needs better in terms of how well it scales for larger applications.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Education Management company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A classic, solid PHP MVC framework

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 15, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We developed our internal reporting dashboard using CodeIgniter. It allows the whole organization to login and gain access to many reports that deal with different aspects of our company. The dashboard is a great tool to help us review our performance as a company and help us share information to everyone within the company.

Pros

CodeIgniter is an MVC framework that allows us to organize our code in a manner that it is easier to maintain and update. If you are working in a team environment and building an application or website like our dashboard, then CodeIgniter is a great solution.

Cons

CodeIgniter has been a solid framework with excellent documentation. The only minor thing I have encountered is that CodeIgniter doesn't have a way to easily create pretty links with hyphens. The url is structured like this: domain.com/testing_here when ideally: domain.com/testing-here

Likelihood to Recommend

CodeIgniter is a great MVC framework for PHP. If you would like to learn the model view controller architecture and object oriented programming, I found CodeIgniter easier to pick up versus Cake or Zend. CodeIgniter like any other MVC frameworks is designed for building robust applications that keep your logic separated from your display (view) allowing for better organization and team development. Although you can use CodeIgniter as a one page application, there are better frameworks out there for that and more lightweight such as angular, and reactjs.

Alternatives

Zend Framework and CakePHP

In my experience, I tinkered with Zend and Cake initially before CodeIgniter. I recall getting stuck multiple occasions with Zend and Cake when I first started learning the MVC architecture. When I found CodeIgniter, the experience was different and it was much easier to learn. Part of it was becasue the documentation at the time were easier to follow. The documentation consisted of examples for all the built in classes that helped expedite the learning process.

Julian Estiva

Web Developer in Marketing at Orbis Education (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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Do you like Open Source products that work?

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 14, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CodeIgniter has been our marketing team's main tool to help us build our micro-sites to recruit students and grow our business for the past two years. They have leveraged CodeIgniter in ways that our previous solutions were unable to provide, and has helped to differentiate the feel of our sites.

Pros

Easy to use
Helps with source control
Open source is always best!

Cons

Update frequency

Likelihood to Recommend

CodeIgniter is not recommended for companies that would prefer a managed, and costly code platform.

Christopher Sweets

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Orbis Education (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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CodeIgniter - The Little Framework that could.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 6, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CodeIgniter is the framework our content management system is built on. It is used university wide. CodeIgniter allows the web services team to easily develop customizations within the CMS. Some applications include developing API integrations with other third party services, our single sign on program, cache breaking, along with text and image manipulation.

Pros

The active record class allows creating readable SQL statements that can be easily understood across the team's varying skill levels.
The input class makes it easy to provide server side validation and scrubbing of user input.
As an MVC framework, separation of code and presentation layer is easily implemented.

Cons

While the active record class is nice, there are occasionally times where it is unsuited and a custom SQL query needs to be coded.
An authentication method against an Active Directory would be nice. Everyone wants single sign on these days.
Composer integration would be a nice to have

Likelihood to Recommend

For smaller applications, CodeIgniter seems well suited. When building larger applications it seems to get a little heavy as features are added. That may be due to lack of experience architecting a larger application with CodeIgniter.

Alternatives Evaluated

Both older and new versions of CodeIgniter lack installation via Composer. Laravel is our other framework of choice; its installation, updates, and addition of third party packages are significantly easier with Composer. CodeIgniter is our primary framework as our CMS is build on it and creating custom integrations and add-ons for it with CodeIgniter are easily accomplished.

Jim Wyse

Web Services Manager in Information Technology at UMass Boston (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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