Since starting a new job in December, I’ve returned to Coldfusion for web development and have adopted the CFWheels framework. Having found a PHP framework that I really liked in Codeigniter, I wanted to find something similar for CF. Fusebox just didn’t cut it. CFWheels was the closest thing I could find to Codeigniter:

• It utilizes CFCs for Controllers and Models in the way that Codeigniter uses classes.
• It comes with some very helpful “helpers” for all kinds of things including redirects, “flash” (no, not that kind) messages, and HTML display code.
• The online documentation is thorough and easy to navigate.

It’s missing a few things that I liked in Codeigniter, like being able create a query object once that’s available throughout a controller, but it’s only up to version 1.0.5 as of this writing, so I expect great things in the future.