I need your opinions, which framework is better? Laravel or CodeIgniter? Why?

Codeigniter is nice because it's more lightweight and doesn't require its own server, but laravel has more features . I don't think either is necessarily better, just different.

Yii 2 :)

Laravel is definitely the prettiest and most feature rich. Jeffery put a lot of work into making it beautiful

@dev0urer you mean Taylor? Jeffrey has contributed to laravel ofcourse.

Last time that I used CI was when it was 2.x. It was very outdated, almost impossible to do tests. I havent checked how is it today but Im pretty sure they still dont leverage modern PHP.

Been using Yii 1 for few years.. Now doing a new project in laravel.. Let's just say I'm not enjoying myself.. Everybody told me it's fun and easy... 2 weeks in... Still waiting for the fun to begin.. But i get the feeling I'll get used to it and will complain about Yii later lol Laravel feels very rich and powerful vs Yii.
CakePhp seems very light and fun..

Worked in Yii1, Yii2, Codeigniter and Laravel. Must say Laravel is pretty different, but I really dont like the querying implementation. Yii2 for me allows for really insane flexibility. Too bad its not as popular as Laravel :/

Depends on how deep you want to go. Laravel projects ibe built are all fantastic when simple and direct aproaches are the name of the game. Codeigniter projects have always only been a case of "we need as much control as possible and we want to purpose bulid the lower level logic in the framework".

2c thought

@arekxv ++ for Yii2

@LucaScorpion Laravel doesn't require its own server, and if you're leaning now, learning ci is like choosing a blackberry as your new smartphone!

@ThomasRedstone what about developing for Windows Phone? "That ecosystem will catch peoples interest real soon!"

@cahva Windows Phone is already dead, it just doesnt know it yet. If you are starting. Your time would be better spent learning something else.

@arekxv @cahva is say windows phones are a decent for the long term, Microsoft are actually the most innovative of the top 3 mobile companies, software you can run on phone, tablet, console and PC?! Sounds great!

@ThomasRedstone I dont know how Microsoft is innovative. If they were really innovative: windows phone would strive to be more like windows on PC, to be more open and allow lot of tinkering and new things like remaking the whole phone by users. Now that would be innovative. Not this locked up mishmash of Android and iOS taped over by Windows logo. Lets look at Windows 10? It looks more closely to Mac OS because Microsoft (and...Apple) are more concerned with looking good than working correctly and offering new things. Not to mention privacy issues, something Microsoft took from Google. Microsoft needs to move away from other companies, yet it is striving to be more like them every passing day. And before you say fanboy... I am using Windows 10 for all my work :)

@cahva you're right, stupid me