CodeIgniter Book Questions

[eluser]Johan André[/eluser]
[quote author="Adam Griffiths" date="1248970795"]Hey guys,

I am just starting to write my CodeIgniter book and have a few questions for you.

Firstly, would you rather learn from a printed book, or an ebook? I know there are many advantages to both so all comments on this are welcome.

What kinds of things would you want to learn from a book? I know the user guide is a brilliant resource so I would need to go further than that and include extras like best practices in there as well. But what else?

Would you prefer to go through building an application, right from the panning stages? Or focus on CodeIgniter with a number of smaller applications. An example would be a client relations manager vs an image uploader, guestbook etc. (Obviously just an example though.)

Anyway there's just a few questions there that I would greatly appreciate feedback on.



Thanks,
Adam[/quote]

Cool!

I think there would be need of an more advanced book.

Here's some suggestions:

- Advanced forms and validation (callbacks, customization, form-helper etc)
- Authentication and permissions (creating a auth-library with multiple roles and permissions)
- Writing own libraries, helpers
- Extending the core (controllers, libraries, custom models, helpers etc)
- Image manipulation (making thumbnails, cropping etc.) with the image_lib
- Security (sessions, user input etc.)
- Project setup (moving app-folder, .htaccess, setting up subversion (and/or git))
- AJAX/jQuery (Pagination, saving forms, deleting items, tablesort etc.)
- Database (transactions, solving "standard" but complex queries with ActiveRecord etc)
- Best practices for coding (code indent, following the CI style guide etc.) This is a big one!
- Real-life problem-solving of those problems everyone run into now and then. Smart ways of solving the "everyday"-stuff.

These are just some brainstorming.
I personally think there are alot "basics"-books and tutorial.
Everyone that creates a screencast, tutorial or book focuses far too much on how to displaying records from a database. It would be nice with a book or tutorial on more advanced topics.

Have a great day!
Johan