Professional CodeIgniter provides information in a tutorial, hands-on approach for PHP developers to build Rails-like applications without needing to learn a new language. CodeIgniter offers a viable PHP solution to MVC development  and is becoming popular among developers. This book  provides an overview of MVC, agile technologies and methodologies, as well as walking the reader through hands-on developments and creation of several types of applications including content management, blogs, and forums, using CodeIgniter. By walking the reader through actually steps in building the applications, they will learn how to circumvent every day problems not covered in reference materials.

Some topics included are:

• agile methodologies and approaches
• MVC approach
• helpers and libraries
• model and schema for products
• Ajax and Scriptaculous