As a huge proponent of Composer, a happy user of PSR-0 and a voting member on the PHP-FIG I get into plenty of conversations about all of them, and it worries me how much confusion there is in the community about these things not actually being related. To many of you this will be preaching to the choir, but this will hopefully clear a few things up for many or at the very least be a handy resource to link people to when they show signs of getting confused between the two.
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One of the fun things about trying to support the PHP-FIG and all the good its doing, is seeing blog posts written complaining about it by people that just don't know what they're talking about. By getting involved in conversations on Reddit, building FAQs and generally trying to build new useful information this can generally be helped. Sadly some
blog posts are sent out by people with a whole bunch of odd opinions that you just can't do anything about, so instead I'm going to respond with a play-by-play approach.
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CodeIgniter was build a long time ago and since its inception it has maintained the same API, without making sizable breaking changes through 3 major versions. Sadly, the API is at a point where it needs to be rewritten to support several fundamental features, which most other frameworks support. This is a walk through those features with a little insight as to what why and how from an ex core contributor.
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For years I was locked into using the same frameworks for everything, mainly because my clients were hiring me specifically to use CodeIgniter based on my reputation within the community. Now that is not the case and I can build things however I damn well like, so I am doing it properly and that is using Composer. I tweeted about some useful libraries I found, so here is what they are with an explanation of the approach and why I used it.
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You might not expect to hear that from a CodeIgniter and FuelPHP developer, but it's true. Taylor has done a brilliant job writing code that is clean, functional and has built a huge community of smart developers in less than a year of active development. People are flooding to Laravel from other frameworks and that's great for the PHP community, read on to find out why.
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