very quick video for YOU to decide which

one of the two frameworks you will use

Codeigniter or Laravel Laravel or Codeigniter

so let's get started [Music]

so first things first, if you just

compare the two frameworks side-by-side

only about the features that they have

and the extendability of the features

Laravel will be the winner, you guested it!

however... however as in choosing open-source

frameworks nowadays is not only about

features and it's not always black or

white, I will give you few extra

information that i hope it will help you

choose the right framemork

choosing a framework is about which framework

fits for YOU the best and which

framework YOU think fits the best for a

particular project. By briefly knowing

about both (that I will describe you now)

will definitely help you!

So for example if you are the only

person that is developing a project and

you want to deliver a project as fast

as possible then Codeigniter is

the best choice for you. You can start

working on Codeigniter by

simply downloading it and copy

pasting it into your project and that's it!

so no configuration is required and it

doesn't matter which PHP version you

are using. You don't need to install ANY

command tools like composer, many people

are frightened with the terminal and you

can literally just start googling

everything. Now before hating my

opinion, I'm not suggesting doing that

but let's face the reality that many

developers are choosing that way to start.

Many people don't want to spend ANY time

learning something new and they just

need to start as fast as possible.

In that case Codeigniter is the best choice.

Now on the other hand, if you are

in a big team and you

definitely need to extend your website

to a very big commercial website then

Laravel is your only choice. The learning

curve that you will have is worth the

time as it is

an actual investment for your team.

It will be easier to maintain coding

standards, easier to create unit tests and

the code will have less conflicts.

Now, I'm not saying that all of these are not

possible with Codeigniter. I'm just

saying that if your project is a

long-term project and you need to invest

more to a framework, then Laravel is the best choice.

Although you will probably spend

too much time learning it and be

familiar with it but at the future it will

help you maintain it. As I promise I want

to keep this video short, so let's

summarize everything really quickly so

again in my OPINION, based on my

experience, choose Codeigniter

framework if: 1. You are a beginner and you

want to create

a project very fast.

2. Your team has maximum two developers involved in one project.

3. You have restrictions in

your hosting server for example it is

using PHP version 5.3.

4. You are more familiar with codeigniter code, as you are

working a long time with Codeigniter

so you are more familiar with it

and lastly: 5. It really matters to you to work

on a framework that newer versions

always have the backward compatibility

in mind. I can give you an example...

I had a project in Codeigniter

version 1.7 and it was very easy to

just migrate it to the latest one

version 3.1 and we are talking about a

really really old project and of course

Choose Laravel when ...

1. Your team has more than two people

2. You really care about coding standards

unit tests and following the latest trends

3. You would like to invest time on

learning Laravel and how to do things right

In my opinion, I think the investment

worth the time as it will teach you a lot

of architecture techniques and good

practices and lastly: 4. You will be more

desirable at the market and this is very

important there are lot of jobs for PHP

developers that are looking for

specifically for Laravel developers

There is still lot of confusion

about choosing the right framework, in my

opinion, and I will repeat that again... is not

to the best framework but it is rather to

choose the best framework that fits to YOU

There is not right and wrong on that

and just choose whatever fits to you

And there you have it :) I hope you guys

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I will speak you guys at the

next video. Bye!