The book “CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development” written by Adam Griffiths. I’ve already wrote a little bit about the book before, and Few days ago I got it in the mail and finished reading it already.
The author is a well known developer in the CodeIgniter community, who also contributed nice authentication library. So as expected, I saw a lot of high quality information in the book, and the experience of the author with CodeIgniter is shown. If I only read the book a year ago, I could’ve become better CodeIgniter developer much faster.
Though the first chapter dedicated to get you started with CodeIgniter, I think its the best if you already have some experience with the framework. And even long-time CodeIgniter developers might find valuable information.
Personally I enjoyed reading about building large scale application [Chapter 7] and the timing is perfect because of the project I’m working on. In my opinion, before reading this book, you must have some experience with CodeIgniter [build 1 applicaiton in CI and you're good to go in my opinion], and this book really can turn you into professional. Use the knowledge you get from this book and you’ll be much better CodeIgniter developer.
Another chapter I liked is Chapter 10 – Developing and Releasing Code to the Community. Although its quite short chapter, there is a lot of information regarding this subject. The author shared in the chapter his experience writing and maintaining the Authentication library and I really enjoyed it. It motivates you to create and share 
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What I was missing in the book, and I think most of the beginners would find it useful is Application Structure examples. Discussing different ways you can build real life web applications that almost every developers writes at some point.
CodeIgniter is amazing PHP framework, its lightweight, very flexible and simple to understand. “CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development” contains very valuable information and practices, that can turn any newbie into skilled CodeIgniter developer. As I already said, if I only had this book a year ago, I could have become better CodeIgniter developer much faster.
For more information about the book & purchase, visit book’s page at PacktPub.com.
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