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I don’t know many of your guys may have pre-ordered the Professional CodeIgniter (ISBN: 978-0-470-28245-8) book. I just got my shipping notice from amazon- so it now shipping. Has anyone had a advanced look at the book?

bnewton

I have “CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development” that published in 2007. Until now that book is still my best guider when I develop web with CI.

I also have that book, chandrajatnika, but I’m very interested in the new one (Professional CodeIgniter) as well. Maybe I’ll order it after reading some reviews 😊 Do anybody know any, if there’s some out yet?

Well,  I received my copy of the Professional CodeIgniter book today , after i get some time to look over it will post a little mini review of the book.

Superb! Keep us posted.

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.

Ah, that’s a shame. There’s really a lack of articles / books covering some more in-depth usage of CI.

Ah, that’s a shame. There’s really a lack of articles / books covering some more in-depth usage of CI.

I just had a quick look on the Packt Publishing CI book and that’s rubish too.

I’d really like to see a book, or even just a set of larger articles/tutorials that tackle bigger stuff then just “how does the database class work”, articles that dig into good coding practices, security stuff etc…

I bought and read the packt CI book (“Codeigniter for Rapid PHP Application Development”) and didn’t really profit from it - it goes very little beyond the CI User Guide. Now I’m considering to buy this new book called “Professional Codeigniter” and I can’t find any reviews on it. Has anyone else beside bnewton read it?
bnewton, when you say the chapter “looks” interesting that means you haven’t actually read it yet, right? Or did you read it in the meantime?
Does anyone know when Elliot Haughin’s book will appear? Any other books planned?

@maesk

I bought the book just after it came out.

I think that the book is for someone that has had at least read the codeigniter userguide so i wouldn’t call it beginner level per se.

I quite like the book but did find that it didn’t really flow for me, if felt quite disjointed and i got the feeling it was put together in a hurry. Also some of the things that it covered (like the programming methodologies) seemed out of place in that book.

I’ve used it mostly as a reference and as a way of seeing how something is done. As it takes you through building an ecommerce application i think it will have a lot of useful ideas and information if you’re new to building websites and new to building them with codeigniter.

I know this is incredibly picky and doesn’t matter one iota but the book feels cheap to me! Compared to sitepoint books for example which i really like.

Strange but true.

Thank you for your opinion/review, audiopleb, that was helpful!
Considering the lack of alternatives, I will probably buy the book, even though it’s kind of cheap and quickly put together. As long as it goes well beyond the user guide and has lots of useful ideas and information, as you say, I think it’s worth a try.
Too bad there’s no sitepoint book on CI or more books on CI in general, for that matter, huh?

Cheers,
maesk

You should post your own review after you’ve read it. Different perspective and all that!

I’m actually talking to a publisher about writing a CodeIgniter book, covering much more advanced stuff and actually providing a use for the framework.

Will keep you updated.

I have read the whole book although I have had quite a lot of experience working with CodeIgniter before reading this book.

Like other guy said already, it’s not really for advanced users, but it’s very good for people who are new to the CodeIgniter and have already extensively read the user guide.

Another thing I like about the book is the approach (client - programmer) and the chapter about Agile development.

There are also some errors/missing code in the book, but overall it’s still worth buying.

What’s wrong with the user guide? It tells you in detail how every class and function works, and examples of how to implement them. I don’t see a use for a CI book when the user guide covers everything.