This document discusses PHP frameworks and CodeIgniter in particular. It provides an overview of PHP frameworks, listing popular options like Zend, CodeIgniter, Symfony and Laravel. It then focuses on CodeIgniter, highlighting its small footprint, clear documentation and ease of use with MVC frameworks. CodeIgniter resources like documentation, forums and tutorials are listed. Finally, it provides an example of using MVC with CodeIgniter by building a controller, model and view to count frogs in a database table.