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I went through the tutorials and I understand how it works - I just don’t see how I could create a robust site with this.  How could I apply all the things I know about jquery and advanced SQL…  How would I update two tables at once…  Seems like I’m going to have to reinvent the wheel to maybe insert data quicker but then limit my web sites.

CodeIgniter is pretty “robust”.
I developed quite a few sites with it and it works out great.

I dunno what you mean by “update two tables at once” but there is a transaction support built-in.
I have not found any limit (as far as database-usage go anyway) since you can use custom queries.
Most of the time the activerecord-calls are enough though…

Just wondering what kindof sites you develop, and what kindof functionality you need that is not already in CI?

Using CI will make your websites more robust since it builds in a design to the way a site is made. jQuery and SQL are just other technologies and both can fit on the side if you want (as Johan said you don’t have to use Active record).

Please remember CI is just a php framework, in the end its just php code. I can’t see any negative points to using a framework other than a slight increase in loading speed (but where talking 1000s of a second, nothing). And for that negative point you get a maintainable well designed site.

Even if you only used the ideas of views and controllers in your website and didn’t touch the database stuff or models or other libraries, you would already be in a better position than you are at the moment.