The best php book?

[General Nuisance]

i need to buy another php book and im wondering in your opinion what is the best?

i have php 5 in easy steps by Mike McGrath.. and in my opinion its good for someone that just wants to learn alittle bit but for me its not enough.. it goes from installing php to writing a guestbook... and it does not use very good coding techniques.. in my opinion..*compared to what elite and icishoot has shown me..*

now elite has told me that php programing for the WWW is the best thing since Pizza... lol..

do you know of a book other than those thats:

easy to follow with examples of code..
good for a person thats rather new to php


know of any?

i have the e-book that elite posted awhile back but i dont care for it very much...

[JonM]

PHP Builders . com www.phpbuilders.com/board/ or buider* i dunno anyways a few people there wrote a book. The biggest suggestion i have is swinging by B&N or some other book store, look at the books (read the backs and see what it teaches) if it looks like what you need, get it.

[JonM]

o yeah it's www.phpbuilder.com ... sry my bad

[Rampage.]

i got PHP and MySQL for dummies, it teaches you how to create a login script and all this other crap with the code written for you, for reference of course

[General Nuisance]

ive seen that one rampage..


elite said: "swinging by B&N "

thats probably what im gonna do but i wanted to know if there was one i should really consider because there are quite a few @ my b&n...

[Rampage.]

yup there are, i just selected that one cause i already have their Javascript one and it was really good.

[JonM]

JavaScript is somehting i do need...mainly cuz javascript is so neat . . . i already do a lil ( i mean like copy others ) but i could never do anything on my own really yet, except for a few things