CodeIgniter for someone totally new? - First Steps

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
1. You have to work with it to know it is for you. Maybe some other framework makes more sense to you.

2. Read the user guide carefully and keep an eye on the forum. This is for me the only source of information and it got me far into the bowels of CI.

3. I take the CI user guide over any api documentation and you can use as much of the frame work as you want. Although it's not recommended you can put all the model and view code in the controller methods and start chopping up code from there.