The Codeiginiter Foundation as at today (1st Feb 2021) release a new version 4.1.0 of the framework.
Codeigniter has just been one of the most popular and easy to use PHP Framework. But as we all known in the recent days it begin to lose it poplularity to river Laravel due to lack of modern PHP codes like (Namespaces, Trait) etc.
On Febuary 24 2020 the Codeigniter Foundation announce a brand new Rewrite Codeigniter Framework version 4 which now support the modern PHP Code and much more nicer structer. Hopefully the framework now started to get back on track as a modern PHP framework to start competition with the rivers out there.
The Codeigniter Foundation has put so much effort int he currrent release version 4.1.0 which now perform some cool feature and PHP 8 fully compatible. It says the version 4.0.5/4.1.0 will be the last Codeigniter version that can be supportted by PHP 7.2 any later realease version will no longer be supported by PHP 7.2 which means the framework will now require PHP 7.3x
Let have a glance at some new feature of teh version 4.1.0:
If you notice in the Codeigniter version 4.0.3 it reported so manu error why trying to run in in the new PHP version 8. So the team has put so much effort to make the new release compatible with the latest PHP version.
We all use use framework to make out building more faster and easy in the previous Codeigniter ver will all need to creae our Controllers, Filters, Model manually. And will all know in Laravel all the file can me created using the artisan command. The CI team as now announce the the latest version now support CLI Generator which means our spark command can now perform this action for use like Creating our Controllers, Filters, Model file for us.
Example: Let generate a controller file with spark command.
php spark make:controller UserController
You can find out more about this feature in the User Guide
The other important new feature mention by the team are:
A very nice improvement and a big Thank You to all the CI contributors!
