🆚 CodeIgniter vs. Symfony
- 📈 CodeIgniter is slightly more popular than Symfony.
- 🌎 CodeIgniter is more popular in India, the United States, and Indonesia.
- 🌍 Symfony is more popular in Germany, Austria, and France.
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About
CodeIgniter is an open-source 
PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup.
It includes MVC support, clean URL routing, CSRF and XSS protection, helper libraries for database access, email, sessions, file uploading, and extensive documentation.
Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity.
It features over 50 decoupled packages for routing, templating, dependency injection, form validation, security, console tools, and internationalization.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Moldova in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Palestine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Austria in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.