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This is largely why I switch to Kohana long ago - the developers of Kohana forked CodeIgniter and then maintained it, while Ellis Labs let CodeIgniter rot.

For those who are interested, Kohana is in version 3 now, and is no longer a CodeIgniter fork. KO3 is basically a ground-up framework reboot with all the lessons learned from making CodeIgniter not suck (query strings, requiring PHP5+ for cleaner architecture, etc.) taken into account.

http://kohanaframework.org/

Thank you for pointing this out. I've used CI for a couple of previous projects, and was just starting on another.

It's not too late to port everything over. :)

Adios, Ellis and CI.

Kohana has awful documentation though -- compared to CI. I think it's a good idea to start with CI to learn to nuances of PHP MVCs and then switch to Kohana with that knowledge in hand.

An excellent point.

Though the more I work with Kohana, I find it ends up being an unexpected side-benefit: I'm forced to go through the actual code of the subsystem in question when I want to learn something tricky about how it works, which means that I thoroughly understand it, as opposed to just dox-level familiarity.

They are working on better dox, though.

This is not terribly uncommon with open source projects (see the same complaints towards Django's commit process a few months ago).

But CodeIgniter can't accept query strings in its urls? Really?

> But CodeIgniter can't accept query strings in its urls? Really?

Yup, you're supposed to use the router instead.

This is such a turn off.

you can hack it to... but it's dirty. just use something else.

of course you can.

it is switched off by default but takes about 1 minute to re-enable (edit a config file).

the author is overblowing the issue

This is simply not true. Enabling query strings in the config breaks all of the html "helpers."

I moved to Yii from CI and never looked back. CI was lacking the most basic features - I cannot believe it still has so many users.

CI's documentation is a huge part of its appeal.

The "Phil" he's talking about in the first paragraph is Phil Sturgeon, and the original blog post is here:

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/news/2010/10/what-happens-next

Thats one of the bad uses of OS but so common

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