Preserved Topic: PHP book recommendations

Got any good PHP books?

I read Julie Meloni's book "PHP fast & easy web development". Good beginners book for those who are interested. I also got the "PHP Developer's Cookbook". Although this looks to be a great *if you want to do this ~ here's the code to do it with* kinda book, a lot of it is still over my head. What I'm looking for is a good intermediate book to make the next step with.

Please only books you can personally recommend

Thanks

Hmmm... The book that I'm using is "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0" by W.J. Gilmore (devshed.com contributer), published by Apress. I don't know if it's intermediate enough for you, but it moves quickly, and covers a lot of ground. The first 100 pages get you up to date on PHP basics like functions, variables, arrays, syntax, etc. Then there's another 300 pages delving into more advanced and useful topics like OOP, Databases, Templates, XML, Security, File I/O, Cookies, Sessions, Forms, and Regexps.

This is perfect for me because I can quickly read introductions and simple function descriptions on almost any topic, and jump right into coding. I haven't done much straight thru reading of it, but that's not the way I like to learn to program, as I usually forget half of the minutae before I even start coding and have to go back anyway.


[This message has been edited by jiblet (edited 04-25-2001).]

Thanks jiblet,

I'll check it out.