Laravel:

☛ Laravel is a framework with expressive, elegant syntax

☛ Development is enjoyable, creative experience

☛ Laravel is built for latest version of PHP

☛ It is more object oriented compared to CodeIgniter

☛ Laravel community is still small, but it is growing very fast.

Codeigniter:

☛ CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework

☛ Simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

☛ Codeigniter is an older more mature framework

☛ It is less object oriented compared to Laravel.

☛ Codeigniter community is large.