CodeIgniter Alternatives

Apps similar to CodeIgniter include Django, which is free and open source. Other options are Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Symfony and Zend Framework. You're spoiled for choice with Software Frameworks like CodeIgniter: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, self-hosting and the web.

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  1. Agile Toolkit icon
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    Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software. Agile Toolkit is notable for it's simple of use and development efficiency.

    38 Agile Toolkit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  2. Minimalist PHP MVC framework in a 55KB file, offering template engine, caching, unit testing, spam protection, bandwidth control, ORM, easy extensibility, SQL handler, plugin support, user authentication, and open-source design for simple rapid development.

    26 PHP Fat-Free Framework alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Laravel Boilerplate provides a very flexible and extensible way of building your custom Laravel applications. It provides Administration Dashboard with Gentelella Admin Theme, Responsive Layout, Bootstrap 3, Font Awesome, and a lot more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • PHP
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  4. Pyramid icon
     9 likes

    Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Python
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  5. ApPHP MVC Framework is a web application framework that is designed to provide modern and rapid development of websites and web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. FuelPHP icon
     12 likes

    Fuel is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3 web framework based on the best ideas of other frameworks with a fresh start and a design pattern in HMVC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  7. Mako is a lightweight and easy to use PHP framework MVC modular.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Phraw icon
     4 likes

    Phraw, a PHP micro-framework. Phraw is indicated for small web sites and small applications because is fast to learn, fast to bootstrap and fast to serve requests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  9. PHPixie icon
     2 likes

    PHPixie is a modern component-based PHP 7 framework. It is thoroughly tested with high code coverage and provides blazing performance without sacrificing any features. All PHPixie components can also be used standalone and provide a great foundation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. Grails icon
     9 likes

    Grails is a high-productivity web framework based on the Groovy language that embraces the coding by convention paradigm, but is designed specifically for the Java platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Spiral Scout’s flagship open-source product, Spiral Framework, is a PSR compliant PHP7 framework that allows developers to craft faster, cleaner, more efficient applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. IHP icon
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    It is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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