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Is this book good? I found it at Amazon and I’m planning to buy it.

Just looked at when it was published and that was mid-2007, a lot has changed since then. but most of the content could still be relevant. CodeIgniter changes so fast you would probably want to just use the User Guide as this is updated with every release.

Review on my site if you’re interested.
http://www.derekallard.com/blog/post/review-codeigniter-for-rapid-php-application-development/

Derek… spelling mistake “when a community and books start to spring up arond it.” - arond is supposed to be around

I think user guide is nice enough to help you get started…

[mod edit: only legal means of acquiring goods are discussed in our community - and besides, we support each other here.  If you find the book valuable, buy it]

I bought it as PDF and it helped me to understand the MVC concept and how to work fast and efficiently with CI. It is good starting point.

I’m half way through the book. I think it’s a pretty good read for a CI beginner. However, the book has a “draft” feel to it as it has many spelling and coding mistakes. Also, some architectural concepts are questionable, especially in the chapter where the view is built within a model.

So far, I give it 3/5.

I liked the book, but it teachs the reader to use a model to render the partials… In this case I rather prefer to use Modular Extensions. It is much, much better, and we leave the models to deal with our databases. A better separation of duties. =)

Despite this, I find the book really good, well written and very complete.

It’s a little like a more detailed manual, and was a bit dry. The user guide has helped me more aside from a few things that were in the book that I haven’t seen elsewhere. Well the guide and blog examples, but don’t expect much more than a starting point with the blogs.