Best book(s) for learning PHP?

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roach
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Best book(s) for learning PHP?

Post by roach »

As the creme-de-la-creme of the PHP dev community, what book(s) do you guys recommend for getting a working knowledge of PHP development, design, deployment, and testing? Ideally I'm looking to ramp up fast, so maybe one "beginner" book, one "intermediate", and one "advanced" (if those distinctions even make sense in the PHP world).

If it's relevant, I have an extensive J2EE technical background, though I'm not sure what knowledge, if any, would be transferable to PHP.

thanks!
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Re: Best book(s) for learning PHP?

Post by aravona »

I got given a bunch of ebooks/pdfs for php (though I've not looked through them too extensively as of yet since my php has taken a back burner to a bunch of data entry and graphical changes)

But the ones I've got, for beginners are obvious :P

PHP 5 for Dummies and PHP & MySQL Everyday Apps for Dummies.

I dummy guided myself though Flash MX and Flash 8 - worked a treat for skimming over basics and confirming things I thought I knew. As far as they go they're pretty good at the basics. I did my php learning at uni through week by week assignments and projects. Most of my PHP skill was transferable from C++/Ceebot/VB knowledge.

Though google will through up unending websites to teach php. w3schools, php.net, tutorialized ... loads of sites.
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