Would CI be suited to online booking / reservations system?

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Thank you all for taking the time to leave such helpful replies.

Following your advice, I have decided that the best route would be for me to, instead, spend those two months diving deep into an existing reservations component for the Joomla CMS, called Jomres, which seems to have a good reputation and an active developer behind it. I am hoping that will be a good, guided way to get to grips with PHP in a directly relevant context.

At the very least, I will gain a good knowledge of reservation-related design decisions. Also, while learning PHP in this way, I will read up on the structures that CI encourages and that should help me to hit the ground running when using CI for any further project.

Again, thank you very much guys.