Comparing CI to other open source solutions (CakePHP and Joomla!)
For one reason or another one should compare these three most of the time and, of course, use one of them. There are other solutions out there, as we have commented before, "few" is not the word to describe PHP frameworks.
Though you would like to have Zend Framework and Symfony in your toolbox, for now, let's use these three for comparison. For example, when Jose heard about frameworks it was all about Ruby on Rails. Before that he used to write his own code for every project. Though Ruby on Rails is a very good framework, for him—a PHP programmer at heart—that was not the solution.
Searching for a PHP framework that was similar to Ruby on Rails, but PHP made, CakePHP was one option. ...
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