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CodeIgniter Pros and Cons Question

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:16 am
by jimthunderbird
Hi All,
For this whole sunday I've spent around 10 hours reading CodeIgnitor's source code. Found a lot of goodies here and there, but here's also a list of questions?
1. What do you think of this framework's pros and cons? I would more like to hear the cons.
2. It's sizing around 1MB, do you think it's hug in size? If I remove the font's file come with it, it's around 800k, do you think it should be more leaner?
3. Also, I'm thinking instead of using $this->load->library and $this->load->model, do you like something for example: loadLibrary(libname), loadModel(modelname)
4. I'm also thinking ideas of creating a bridging interface to let CI inter-operate with other well-known packages like phpbb, CMS Made Simple, wordpress, OSCommerce... I guess if multiple PHP Applications can communicate with each other, php will be even stronger. Is this what they call in ROR Restful Application?
I'm thinking the interface sort of like $phpbb->getFormList(), $phpbb->getNewRegUsersToday() ...
5. Are there any other CI-like frameworks that are faster and smaller in size?

At this moment, I'm quite happy with it's multi-app management and there's a ROR-like active record library written in pure PHP4...

Hope to hear from you.

With my best,
Jim