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howdy rick,

>  I've been tinkering with codeigniter recently, mainly because I was
>  asked to review a codeigniter book, but I have to say I really like it
>  - a useful lightweight php framework that isn't too restrictive. Just
>  wondering if anyone else on the list is using it? I'd be particularly
>  keen to hear from any freelancers using it, as I have a prospective
>  upcoming project that I may use codeigniter for, and i'm always
>  looking for extra pairs of hands.

Whilst CodeIgniter is well documented and lightweight, as soon as you
involve any kind of complex data structure Cakephp wins hands down. CI
has no built in association mapping (too late to look up the correct
term on google!), and has afaik no recommended library, so unless
you're only dealing with very limited data structures or like coding
all those associations yourself, I'd look at Cake.

I've assumed you prefer less config over more, hence not suggesting
Symfony as an alternative :p

I know you've used the old version of cake (1.1), which is way way
behind 1.2 in terms of features. 1.2 is officially still in beta, but
apart from a few minor API changes, I only rarely hit any bugs with
it.

As an asside, I've been using CakePHP for all my web apps for 2 years
or so now, it's served me very well. It does have a less pro looking
site and somewhat lacking docs, this is (slowly) being addressed with
things like http://book.cakephp.org/ and http://bakery.cakephp.org

cheers,

jon

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