With all the furore surrounding Ruby on Rails, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that any other web application framework ever existed. The fact is, of course, that there are many to choose from, and one leading PHP-based framework is MVC-based CodeIgniter.

The CodeIgniter website is a great place to start for newcomers and more experienced developers alike, but I still like a good book, that I can hold in my hand and digest. Wrox’s Professional CodeIgniter is such a book, and presents a good overview of the framework that’s getting deserved attention in the web development community. Continue reading →