Codeigniter Alternatives

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15 best codeigniter alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Codeigniter alternative list source: codeigniter.com

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15 best codeigniter alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Codeigniter alternative list source: codeigniter.com

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These alternatives are useful when you want to compare similar tools by platform support, licensing signals, practical features, and archived community feedback before visiting official product websites.

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Originally added: September 17, 2018

Compare Codeigniter alternatives

Compare top-ranked Codeigniter alternatives by score, license, and supported platforms.

Alternative	Score	License	Platforms
Django	95% Archived community votes: 167	Free, Open Source	Windows, Mac, Linux
Laravel	96% Archived community votes: 125	Free, Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
Ruby on Rails	93% Archived community votes: 107	Free, Open Source	Windows, Mac, Linux
Symfony	94% Archived community votes: 95	Free, Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
Yii Framework	91% Archived community votes: 65	Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
Agile Toolkit	84% Archived community votes: 51	Free, Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
Zend Framework	84% Archived community votes: 49	Free, Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
CakePHP	85% Archived community votes: 41	Free, Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
PHP Fat-Free Framework	82% Archived community votes: 39	Free, Open Source	Windows, Mac, Linux
FuelPHP	74% Archived community votes: 23	Free, Open Source	Web, Windows, Mac, Linux
Koa	78% Archived community votes: 23	Free, Open Source	Windows, Mac, Linux
Grails	63% Archived community votes: 19	Free, Open Source	Windows, Mac, Linux

Archived community votes are historical community signals and are not verified reviews.

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Django

Score: 95%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux

Django rapid development and clean, pragmatic design promotes a top-level Python web framework. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,Python

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125

Laravel

Score: 96%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

Laravel PHP framework with minimal configuration and expressive syntax is clean and stylish. Restful routing; ORM; beautiful code. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web,Self-Hosted

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Ruby on Rails

Score: 93%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux

Ruby on rails, the Ruby programming language, the open source Full-Stack Web Application Framework. Rails is a full stack framework, it means that Web Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Ruby

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Symfony

Score: 94%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

PHP and PHP framework for web projects version for its users and offers reusable components. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web,PHP

Yii Framework

Score: 91%

Open SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

High-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development years. Yii rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, together with Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web

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Agile Toolkit

Score: 84%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

Agile toolkit is a PHP framework for developing web user interfaces. The desktop GUI provides a presentation of an object on the basis of, and inspired Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web

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Zend Framework

Score: 84%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

PHP Art & Soul, started with the Zend Framework is based on simplicity, best practices, corporate friendly licensing and rigorously Agile Testing-object Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web

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CakePHP

Score: 85%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

CakePHP provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications for a rapid development PHP framework. Commonly known Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web,Self-Hosted

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PHP Fat-Free Framework

Score: 82%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux

Fat free 5.3+ Web development framework for fast, dynamic and powerful PHP applications is designed to be a lightweight, but powerful! A unique, intensive Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux

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FuelPHP

Score: 74%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

With a new start-and fuel-HMVC design pattern-driven PHP 5.3 web framework based on other frames of the most of the good ideas of the community are simple, flexible,. This Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web

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Koa

Score: 78%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux

With the help of Co, a web applications generator node.js API layer and writing more enjoyable and impressive. Koa stockalike layer flow in a manner Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux

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Grails

Score: 63%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux

Grails programming by Convention paradigm, there is a high productivity web framework based on the Groovy language, which includes, but is specially designed for Java Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux

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Pyramid

Score: 53%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

Pyramid is an open-source web-framework written in Python and is based on his wife. Print (), minimalist web framework inspired by Django and pylons. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web,Python

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Nette Framework

Score: 77%

FreeOpen SourceWebWindowsMacLinux

Nette Framework is a popular tool for PHP web development. It is designed to be the most useful, as possible, and in any case, is one of the safest. The talks Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Web,Self-Hosted

Phalcon

Score: 14%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux

Phalcon–controller (MVC) pattern the model-based high-performance PHP it is a vision of a web framework. In fact, in 2012, released an open-source framework licensed Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux

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Codeigniter alternatives FAQ

What is the best Codeigniter alternative?

Django is currently the top-ranked option on this list based on community votes and item score.

Are there free Codeigniter alternatives?

Yes. Free, freemium, or open-source options in this list include Django, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Yii Framework.

Which platforms are covered?

The alternatives in this list include options for Linux, Mac, Windows, Web, depending on each product.

How are alternatives ranked?

Alternatives are ordered by community voting signals, item score, and the available product details collected for each option.

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