Glad to find this forum

[bytezilla]

I've lurked around this forum for a few years.  Lots of good information and advice.  I have been coding a long time and written many sites & apps for work & freelance projects. Now I'm going to get off my butt and try to seriously create my own hobby game.   I'm going to be using PHP/CodeIgniter.  I'll let you know how it goes.

[Nox]

Hi and welcome!

[dbest]

welcome and keep us posted..

[Kyle]

CodeIgniter looks interesting. I'm not savvy with frameworks, but I'm thinking maybe I should start looking into them.
What about CodeIgniter sets it apart from the rest? Why use it as opposed to your own custom code?

[capturts]

I used to only use home made code, but gave CI a go and was quite pleased. I'm not sure if it's better or worse than others. The reason I chose it was because it didn't force you to do everything in a certain way. For example you can use it's mysql helper, but if you don't want to you can just do it the old fashioned way.

[pirategaspard]

Something to consider is looking at the Kohana framework. Its a community updated version of Codeigniter

[capturts]

I'd heard of Kohana, didn't realise it was based on CI. How does it differ?

[Barrikor]

Hello Bytezilla 

[bytezilla]

I choose CodeIgniter because it claims to have a small footprint and doesn't have a lot of complicated setup and installation needs.

I have always been a self-taught programmer without using frameworks.  But I was recently on the job market and everyone was using frameworks and expect all PHP developers to be comfortable in a MVC framework environment.