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http://www.packtpub.com/codelgniter-php-application-development-mvc/book

hahahahaha taking money for manual for a free software (that has an incredible help / support forum) how evil is that? :(

I haven’t had any peeks at the book myself, but it is obviously not a printed version of our User Guide. 😛

It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible.

yeah probably it’s filled with tutorials of ways to use codeigniter ...

hahahahaha taking money for manual for a free software (that has an incredible help / support forum) how evil is that? :(

Taking money for it is not evil at all.  I have dozens of books, almost all of them about free software.  Their quality varies, though O’Reilly books seem to be the most consistently good.  If someone wrote a book with good explanations of how CI does what it does, and that included all the CI API’s with several examples of each one’s use, I would probably buy it myself. 

What IS evil, in my humble opinion, is the excessive lengths of copyrights.  For example, a book about CodeIgniter should not need more than 5 years of copyright protection.  The current copyright laws ensure that nothing useful will ever again be entered into the public domain, and THAT, to me, is evil.

Now, whether the book is worth it’s cost is left as an exercise to the reader.
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well everyone’s happy until the pdf version of the book ends up on torrents. what goes around comes around lol .. evil mind 😊) gotto slap my self sometimes for saying these things 😊)

I’m new to CI and frameworks in general. I have been coding in PHP for a number of years, but could never really wrap my grey matter around object oriented programming.  I am about to embark on a major overhaul of a not so small site and plan to work with others at some point to help grow and maintain it.  I also do want to expand my skillset to include OOP—it’s a good thing to know in this world of web 2.0, and soon enough 3.0.

I decided to check into the world of frameworks—straying over to RoR until I found CI.  Even with the excellent CI user guide, I found my own knowledge base to be sorely lacking, in particular re: the big picture of how a web application built with a framework needs to tie together.  I was able to play around a bit with CI after watching the tutorials, looking at different code examples, and reading through the user guide.  But only after buying this book have I been able to “see” what I’m doing and know why. The book is a fast read, and does a good job of introducing the reader to the world of PHP/OOP and MVC as applied to (or should say by) CI.  Both Rick Ellis and Derek Allard reviewed the book pre-press - I figure that’s a bonus.

I have bought so many books over the years on HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP, OOP, MySQL…—why not one that digs into the meat of a framework and gets you started in the right direction?

I am not affiliated with this book, or Packt publishing or anything else making money on CI.  I am just an OOP-deficient web developer who is trying to play nicely with others in my next round of projects. If you are a beginner re: frameworks, OOP, MVC—I say download CI, read through the User Guide, watch the tutorials, and yes - if you are still a little or a lot confused—buy this book.

Thanks, tinawina. I wrote the book. What you describe is just what I was trying to achieve. Glad it worked for you!

Thanks, tinawina. I wrote the book. What you describe is just what I was trying to achieve. Glad it worked for you!

Hey David,

Glad to see you in the forums!  It’s too bad, though… I emailed Packt to find out whether an e-book copy of the book would be made available.  Unfortunately, they said it would not be offered.

I much rather prefer having digital copies, as it not only saves paper, but also saves space in my place… too many books, not enough room. 😉

Any chance you could sway them to offer it in digital form?

Hi David and thanks for writing the book!  I start in on my first CI-based application next week and I’ll have your book open in my lap and the CI user guide open in a browser window.  That oughtta cover things.  😊

I really do find the book very helpful.  I like that you don’t make a big deal out of someone not knowing OOP already.  Your tone is very encouraging - I appreciate that. 

I’m wondering if you will make any of the code and table info in the book available as a download from Packt or somewhere else?

That’s it - take care and keep up the good work!

p.s. About the eBook version—I was told by Packt that they are working through some bugs/issues with how they offer eBooks and that they will be offering this book in a digi-format.  No timeframe offered though.

[quote author=“tinawina”]I am not affiliated with this book, or Packt publishing or anything else making money on CI.

yes .. and i’m a flying bear

Wow dude - you might investigate where you might find a chill pill to take, and then swallow it down fast.  I am not affiliated with this book, or the publisher, or anything else making money on CI.  So I guess you are a flying bear.  Or a flying…something….  😉

i’m a flying paranoid bear to be exact 😊)

Ive asked Packt about ecopies and they confirm that there will be an ebook version soon.

Hi everyone,
I’m a newbie to MVC Design but really love the idea behind it. I have been reading a book on ROR but I figure why learn a new language when I am already familiar with the PHP syntax and many open source projects are in PHP already.

I followed the link to the Packt publishing site, but the book was no longer there? Does anyone know where I can find it?

I am looking at getting involved with Expression Engine and CI in general having previously used Joomla / Drupal.

Cheers,
Gavin.