Chris Hartjes, after spending ten days (a week-ish) working with CodeIgniter, has posted some of his thoughts comparing the framework to one he likes just a bit more, CakePHP.

As loyal readers to my blog know, my employer has committed to using CakePHP. That's okay, I'm a big boy and can handle working with different things as clients (and bosses) demand. So, after maybe a week and a bit of working with CodeIgniter I thought I'd talk about it.

He's broken it down into a series of bullet-points to summarize the experience (there's explanations under each too):

• Once you know one MVC framework, you know them all
• CodeIgniter mixes OOP and functions
• Lack of conventions makes Chris sad
• CodeIgniter's User Guide Is Awesome
• No built-in associative data mapping makes Chris sad