> >One good book is : > >PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson > >It's currently in a 2nd Edition. It gets a rating of 4 on Amazon.
> I had a look at the books contents on Amazon, it looks like it could be > just the thing. :-) Don't know the Welling/Thomson book; the one I use is called "Core PHP Programming" 3rd edition by Leon Atkinson and is very strong on the PHP side of things; glosses over the MySQL side of things as it has a chapter on all the databases and how to access them. It functions very well as a reference once you've learned the language although there's more up to date information online. Something a bit cheaper but still looked ok when I flicked through it was a book called "PHP And MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites"; it was one of these visual quick guide things. It actually looked pretty good and solutions oriented. You should be able to find these three books at a good bookstore; many of them (notably Angus & Robertson and some but not all Dymocks) have this funny semi-permanent 20% "discount" to make the prices look less rapacious. From memory the prices of the three books in question are: PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson $100 - 20% Core PHP Programming $85 - 20% PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites $50 - 20% If you approach programming from a "here's what i want to do; tell me how to get it up and running fast" the "Dynamic Web Sites" book could be for you; if you want to go ground up and have more extensive reference material choose one of the other two. Enjoy your PHP, Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
