CodeIgniter - Power-packed Performance meets Developer-Friendliness
PHP has been the undisputed leader in the realm of open source platforms from quite a while now. The host of frameworks it has truly make it the choicest platform among hordes of web development professionals. But if you have to nitpick one PHP framework that stands out, it would be CodeIgniter.
There is an ensemble of reasons that perch CodeIgniter among the top of the line PHP frameworks. And the testimony to the fact is that the last three years have witnessed a growing traction among web developers towards CodeIgniter, particularly when it comes to creating large scale web applications that boast of amazing speed and a powerful set of features. Let’s take a closer look at what makes CodeIgniter a leader in programming frameworks:
Developer-Friendly
There is undeniable simplicity to the way applications are developed in CodeIgniter. It does not send the developers in a tizzy of confusion with its codes (which uncharacteristically of a typical programming framework are not complex). The tools in this framework are very non fussy and self elucidatory. Developers know exactly what is used for which operation. The biggest gainers of this feature is the beginners who don’t have an expansive knowledge of the codes and are still in the learning phase.
Heavyweight Performance
There has been an amazing attention to detail in CodeIgniter code structure development. The developers have gone a great distance to ensure that every function in the framework goes an extra mile to deliver a particular feature. The robustness of this feature is further accompanied by the scalability. Thanks to the flexibility of CodeIgniter as a programming framework, there is so much more you can achieve. It gives you an amazing room to create and ideate and introduce your own set of innovations that are not possible with the other frameworks out there.
The Add Ons
CodeIgniter comes equipped with several add ons that further enhance the performance of the apps and reduces the development process in terms of time and effort to be invested in them. These add ons are essentially short snippets of powerful code that are already integrated within an extension and all a developer needs to do is to install the extensions and they can have all the features in their app without writing even a single line of code. And no, it is not just the beginners who benefit by this, but it is also the expert programmers who are spared the need of adding more functions and colvoluted code for every bit of feature they wish to integrate with app with.
Security Unirivalled
CodeIgniter is constructed in a way that it makes it almost impenetrable for the hackers to break into the application. The malicious coders out there find it extremely hard to glide past the authentication algorithms of CodeIgniter and that alone is worth the price of admission. When you are assured that the web solution you are creating is protected against the malicious coders, that gives you the freedom to take bigger strides.
As the competition grows around it, CodeIgniter will continue to leap and toss at us greater features.