I fell in love with CodeIgniter...
It's just a so simple but powerful and feature-rich PHP-Framework.

I like prefer CodeIgniter over Laravel!

Give CakePHP a try!
I switched from CI to CakePHP, it's in the middle of CI and laravel.

@mohammed

Does cakephp has orm like eloquent

CI was my first. Symfony and then larvavel followed. Mostly stuck with symfony. Might give CI a whirl again. what's so great about in since I last used it 4-5 years ago?

You got it me at php.

@BroCow yep

As a php developer for the last 10+ years, why php?

@boom Well some people actually like PHP, like me for example :)

Its awesome. But it has similar limitations as node, so i cant see a reason to prefer it over node anymore @linuxxx

@boom Tbh I program in both PHP and Node haha

And...? @linuxxx

@boom Like them both for different use cases! For real time stuff I use node (socket.io) and for general websites/API's I use PHP :)

<@mohammed>
Ye, I've already taken a look, but CodeIgniter just seemed a bit easier and more sympathetic.

(CI doesn't use that much Namespaces and D
different class names, instead you extend CI_Controller and then use $this to load helpers and libraries and stuff)

<@unfuckers-inc>
No clue what has changed.

The current version is 3.x

<@linuxxx>
I also use both. Both have their pros and cons.

CakePHP FTW