Good PHP book?

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Is there a book that is very helpful on learning PHP in-and-out. When I learned HTML 10 years ago I went through the HTML goodies book and it got me where I needed to be, same for VB, I need a PHP book that'll accomplish the same thing.I realize there's thousands of tutorials out there but unless there's a site that takes you through all of the aspects as one of the example books does I think a book is needed.thx
 


Do a search for "18 yr old douchebag learns PHP after peddling worthless SEO book" and see what comes up.
 
it'd be cool if when I'm trying to contribute as a forum member you still decide to be a dick... Die in a fucking fire...
 
alright thanks, I've been through quite a few paperbacks for programming languages and found them way more helpful than tutorials.Thx, hah aff link that is awesome, if I get it i'll make sure to use that link, we're all here to better our sites/endeavors.
 
yeh I just got it used for like tree fitty... not bad at all, my designs def. need to get with the freaking times I need to get into Web 2.0 and the like
 
The Lynda.com tutorials on PHP are getting a little old now( I don't think it's been updated in a couple of years now...) but I have had access to all the CSS ones and they seem to be worth every penny if your more of a visual learner.
 
To be honest, I learned PHP (obviously not inside and out, but enough to create almost anything with PHP.net by my side..) in about 3 days via About.com's tutorial on how to make a PHP/MySQL interface/DB for a company's "staff information list"

Don't have a link on me right now, sorry - but take a peak for it. I'm pretty sure it was titled something like "PHP/MySQL Tutorial" (generic, isn't it?)

Good luck.
 
The problems with most of the about.com tutorials and most tutorials like that is that they are very beginner friendly and although they teach you the skills to get-the-job-done they lack the technical concepts and information to teach you cleaner,shorter, and more better code in the sense that it accomplishes the task at many different levels as opposed to one linear goal.

At the same time its not really effective as most of the shit you learn will never be used in day to day programming, that being said it certainly does come in useful.

For the OP since you do know html, and possible some javascript it should be fairly easy to get started on php, since it is extermely n0ob friendly i believe, well compared with other server-side lanuages anyhow.As for some good books the sitepoint anthology is decent and as Bofu2U said since your not trying to learn to code for a living or anything 10 hours on about.com will prepare you for most php/mysql tasks today.
 
Once you learn the basic structure of PHP then google and PHP.net will be your best friend...
 
I use PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites Second Edition
The end of the book is confusing, but it helped me enough to learn what I needed too. Very useful with it's MySQL info too.
 
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