Is codegniter relevant in 2018 for a novice developer?

Question

CodeIgniter

The year is 2018, is it relevant to start with Codegniter as the first framework. if Laravel and Yii2 are very hard?
Or is it a look into the past?

Answer 1

I would say not relevant, even very...
Laravel is heavy, in this I agree, but Yii2 is, in principle, very affordable, in a couple of months you can learn it at a basic level and already make websites up to the store inclusive (if there is a great desire and desire to learn).
Another very convenient and easy to learn framework - CakePHP ... Not popular, yes, but it is convenient and simple, and change from it to the same Yii2 in the future is a no-brainer, as well as in the opposite direction

Answer 2

Only at the very beginning, to understand the meaning and convenience of working with the framework. As soon as I understood - Laravel/Symfony.

Answer 3

It is important to know that it exists, and that it is undesirable to start new projects on it.

Answer 4

Just studying OOP, I did not come across:
1. Routes in such abundance
2. Filters
3. Autoloads
4. Applications
and so on. and In such a number of files, it is necessary to keep 50-100 files in your head, and moreover, there is nothing random there and in each file there is a code that is responsible for something.
Even the usual View (views) in frameworks are set in their own way through widgets and so on.
В этом океане взаимосвязанных файлов и кучи кода только phpstorm помогает немного))
около 7-10 дней знакомлюсь с фреймворками , один тяжелее другого.