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Although I've had experience using CakePHP before, a recent project has led me out of necessity to learn to develop with CodeIgniter. So far I'm pretty pleased with what I'm seeing of it, and it's sped up my project development quite a bit, although at the moment it's hard to say by exactly how much, as it has to take into account the time spent learning how to use CodeIgniter too.

I think the thing I love most about it is the way in which the queries are built, which makes it so easy to add and remove parts as I need, and not have to worry about the peculiarities of database I'm using. In-fact, I'm so taken with the framework, I'm re-developing my visitor tracking to use it, which should make the future development of it a lot easier, as it seems like the system always takes a back-seat to whatever else I might be doing at the time.

Another good feature of CodeIgniter is the clean format of its URLs which it uses by default. They serve little in terms of SEO value, but they do aid human-readability incredibly, which is more and more useful these days, where more and more technophobes are getting themselves online.

So, any tool that can speed up my development time, protect against SQL injection and XSS attacks and make it easier for people to use, I'm happy with!