Mini Review of Professional CodeIgniter
The book should have been called Beginning CodeIgniter. It’s not a reprint of the user guide. The book does a good job of covering a most of core feature of CodeIgniter. The chapter on agile methodologies and approaches looks interesting. There looks to be a little bit of usage of Ajax and Scriptaculous with CodeIgniter but only for a few pages. If you new to CodeIgniter and MVC and looking for a good beginners book - I would suggest this book. More advanced users of CodeIgniter may want to pass on this book.
I’d have to agree with Summer’ I did a review of Professional CodeIgniter last year and found the material fairly basic too. While I did find the contrasts and similarities between a certain Dessert-based framework interesting, I do wish they he had gone a bit more in-depth. Frankly a lot of the material was what you’d expect to learn from CI’s own tutorials. They main thing I took from the book was the Agile approach, which I think is worth knowing. Two years on now I’d expect the book is due for an update.