Best Book\Resource to learn PHP from?

[Guy G]

Can anyone recommand? how did you learn?

i have read loads of newb tutorials and such, useless... any real hardcore PHP tutorials out there? which i will actually learn something?

[patriotcow]

I also want to know, I have seen crappy ones that tell you how to echo writing and such but I already know that. Most books I see tell you a few commands and what php actually is but doesn't explain how to code it all :ermm:

[Dean C]

Sams Teach Yourself PHP In 24 Hours

[Andreas]

vBulletin source-code, http://www.php.net and sometimes Google - that's how I learned PHP.

[cinq]

Believe it or not, I picked up php by ripping a hack here apart and putting it back together again

from then on, php.net and google.
Google is your friend.

[Guy G]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Sams Teach Yourself PHP In 24 Hours

Started reading it by your recommandation... its great. thank you

PHP and MySQL Web Development, Third Edition. Great book IMO.

[sabret00the]

Larry Ullman's Visual Quickpro Guide: PHP and MySQL For Dynamic Websites

[Revan]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

vBulletin source-code, http://www.php.net and sometimes Google - that's how I learned PHP.

I second this, the vB source code has proved priceless for learning PHP, IMHO.

[trafix]

Originally Posted by cinq

Believe it or not, I picked up php by ripping a hack here apart and putting it back together again

from then on, php.net and google.
Google is your friend.

I agree .... i learnt by studying and reading vb scripts and hack script for hours looking at what each part of the script actually did ... then started to test out little scripts that i coded and went from there