CodeIgniter Posted by Alan D Moore on 2009-08-06 01:56:39

Well, years after being recommended it, I'm finally checking out CodeIgniter. With the downturn of the economy, it looks as though fewer departments will be buying vendor-provided solutions, so some in-house PHP coding is in order.

As much as I code PHP, I've always been oh-so-keenly-aware that everything I code is spaghetti when I use PHP. Compared to Python where the quest for elegance is so easily fulfilled, my PHP coding always feels like a massive hack, no matter how much object-oriented code I throw at it.

So after debugging one last fatal error due to my forgetting whether my database query function was called queryDb() or dbQuery(), I decided to start looking for a solid but not overwhelming framework. CodeIgniter seems to fit the bill.

If nothing else, learning it may give me something to blog about!

Alan Moore writes stuff for computers, stuff for humans about computers, and sometimes stuff about humans for humans or computers.

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