CodeIgniter 4 vs Laravel — When to Choose Which (From a Dev Who Uses Both)

<p><a href="https://symfony.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Symfony</a> and <a href="https://laravel.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Laravel</a> are the two dominant PHP

<p>CodeIgniter 3 still runs a lot of production apps. TechLeads counts ~124k CodeIgniter sites, and HTTP Archive saw 234k pages in Sept 2026, down 16% year on year. CI4 is

<p>I run a small agency out of Istanbul building corporate websites for small and medium businesses — clinics, hygiene service providers, IT partners. Almost every prospective

<h2> The Problem Every PHP Developer Knows </h2> <p>You start a new CodeIgniter 4 project. Before writing a single line of business logic, you spend hours on setup: getting Docker