{"id":4397,"date":"2020-02-21T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T04:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:01:42","slug":"understanding-the-differences-between-codeigniter-and-laravel-php-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/understanding-the-differences-between-codeigniter-and-laravel-php-frameworks","title":{"rendered":"Understanding The Differences Between Codeigniter and Laravel PHP Frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/understanding-the-differences-between-codeigniter-and-laravel-php-frameworks\/#What_is_Laravel\" title=\"What is Laravel?\">What is Laravel?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/understanding-the-differences-between-codeigniter-and-laravel-php-frameworks\/#What_is_CodeIgniter\" title=\"What is CodeIgniter?\">What is CodeIgniter?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/understanding-the-differences-between-codeigniter-and-laravel-php-frameworks\/#Differences_between_CodeIgniter_and_Laravel\" title=\"Differences between CodeIgniter and Laravel:\">Differences between CodeIgniter and Laravel:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">PHP is a popular framework and developers love to use it for its features that help to create functional and rich websites and applications. Two PHP frameworks that have become very popular are Codeigniter and Laravel. Both these PHP frameworks are secure, reliable and fast for developing web application. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Both have emerged through the years to become the best framework and before considering one, you should check all the aspects like the levels of skills, framework features, but which platform offers better highlights?\u00a0 Here in this blog, let us make a close examination and know the contrasts between Laravel and CodeIgniter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Laravel\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>What is Laravel?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is an open source, popular PHP framework. The platform is intended to develop web applications by using the MVC architectural patterns and this helps the project that is developed using it to be more structured and manageable.\u00a0 The framework allows reusing the existing functionality of the core framework with its own features. It is released under the MIT license and its source code is hosted on the GitHub. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It comes with high security and this helps <a href=\"\/laravel-development\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Laravel Development<\/span><\/a> to take quick actions in case of any security breach. It has a very accurate and expressive syntax pattern and common web development tasks like authentication, caching, routing sessions are all properly streamlined to save both time and resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_CodeIgniter\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">What is CodeIgniter?<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is a powerful PHP framework, which is used to build full features web applications. It is built for the developers who love to work with simple and elegant toolkits.\u00a0 CodeIgniter PHP framework is one of the best options to create dynamic websites using PHP. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It offers complete freedom to the users as they don\u2019t have to depend on the MVC development pattern and it also allows integration of third party plugins that are useful to implement complicated functionalities to the website or application. This PHP framework also offers great security and encryption features.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Differences_between_CodeIgniter_and_Laravel\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Differences between CodeIgniter and Laravel:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Library Usage<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span> Laravel has object oriented libraries, which are very easy to use by the developers during the effective <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/web-development\/\">Website Development<\/a><\/span>. All the libraries are supported by autocomplete features. CodeIgniter libraries on the other hand are not supported by such features that can help in easy development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Reliability and Stability:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Codelgniter and Laravel are both stable and reliable PHP frameworks and it is observed that the risks of technical issues and bugs are very less in CodeIgniter when compared to Laravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>REST Application Programming Interface:<\/strong><\/span> Laravel offers RESTful controllers to develop different REST APIs without the need to devote any extra time and effort. But with CodeIgniter framework, the users need to write some additional codes to build REST API.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/latest-php-trends-of-2020-that-will-benefit-your-business-website\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Latest PHP Trends of 2020 That Will Benefit Your Business Website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Object Relation Mapping<\/strong>:<\/span> CodeIgniter does not support ORM while Laravel allows the developers to enjoy the benefits of Eloquent object relational mapping ORM. It can be used to work with a wide range of databases more efficiently by Active Record implementation. The developers can use the model to attain common tasks like running database queries or inserting new records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Authentication Features<\/strong>:<\/span> The authentication class is provided in Laravel that helps the developers to implement authentication and authorization. But with Codelgniter PHP framework, the developers have to write custom extension to utilize the authorize and authentication features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Routing:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Both Laravel and CodeIgniter offer the option of PHP frameworks and the features offer the developers to route the requests in an effective manner. It needs to be registered by the users to respond to various HTTP verbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Database Schema Migration:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Codeigniter doesn\u2019t offer any specific features that can simplify the database schema migration. This needs a lot of efforts, but Laravel make this easy by the database agnostic migration features, which is provided by it. This makes the developers easily modify and share the database schemas of the application without having to write complex codes to perform the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/blog\/php-8-0-release-and-the-jit-support\">PHP 8.0 Release and the JIT Support<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP is a popular framework and developers love to use it for its features that help to create functional and rich websites and applications. Two PHP frameworks that have become very popular are Codeigniter and Laravel. 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