I am deciding to buy some good PHP reference books from basic to advance levels which also includes MySQL and Javascript connection with PHP.
Any good books to suggest?
Note: I am not asking to buy an "e-book".
Thank you.
I have always liked the phpacademy tuts on YouTube. Those got me to where I am today, which is fairly solid.
This one is decent, since it's not like all the others:
Instead of starting at "Hello World," Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you're familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff.
http://nostarch.com/wcphp.htm
Basic+ to Medium+
Here's a few PHP/MySQL books I have:
PHP5 and MySQL Bible (Wiley) (Released 2004 but really does cover everything, highly recommend it, ~1000 pages)
PHP the Good Parts (O'Reilly) (Released 2010 but more of a reference guide than anything, ~150 pages)
High Performance MySQL, Second Addition (O'Reilly) (Covers MySQL 5.1, requires basics knowledge of MySQL, ~650 pages)
Thank you everybody, I shall seek into them and considering buying.
And @Josh; I shall see to it, thank you.
If anyone has anymore good names for the book, please bid them and I shall see which ones should I choose.
Not books, although I would suggest and recommend every one: php.net , the reason is because they have fairly a good amount of examples, and you can ask support there aswell. Learning from books will not aid you with this assistance.
That is good of course, Yaldaram. I am just buying a book to as refer it on a couch or so while relaxing. I stay up to 16 hours online these days and eyes are starting to get hurt.
So a book would be nice and I keep on checking php.net every once a while, though.