Pro PHP MVC

This book is for new and old developers alike. It’s designed in such a way that the basics are first explained and then advanced topics are covered. This means that more experienced developers might find certain sections (such as those explaining design patterns) to be old hat. If this is you, feel at liberty to skip ahead to the more challenging stuff.
If you are new to object-oriented programming, framework building, or PHP in general, I would recommend reading everything and taking breaks between reading to recap what you have learned by coding something.
What This Book Won’t Teach You
This book won’t teach you PHP. It assumes you have basic knowledge of PHP and are at least comfortable with building PHP web sites.
This book will not teach you how to be a CodeIgniter, Zend Framework, or CakePHP expert. While these frameworks are discussed and used in the course of this book, the purpose of their use is to illustrate the differences between their approaches and the approach we take when building our own framework.