What's a good book for learning PHP?

Bearing in mind that I'm competant (hope I spelled that right! :)) using ASP and setting up a web server and don't want a book where the first 5 chapters are completely patronising.

I'm after something like "Learning PHP for ASP Programmers".

Anyone got any good suggestions?

Learning PHP om 21 Days :rolleyes: Actually have no idea and don't know why l replied to this.

What's PHP anyway, sounds like a brand of sauce.

Professional PHP programming, by Wrox press..


and I learned most of my PHP from http://www.php.net/manual/html

and some from http://www.phpsquare.com


go to
http://www.cfm-resources.com/d/dewrenn/links.php

and look under the PHP section...

also, tell me what you think of the site, because I just put it up today..

Thanks, guys...I mean Dennis. :)
Jethro...what were you thinking!? :D No...that would be "HP".

Am goin into town on my way home tonight so I'll have a look at those two in Waterstones/Dillons (I know one of them took over the other and the other doesn't appear to exist anymore... but I know there is at least one left :))

[Edited by matthewralston on 12-20-2000 at 05:26 AM]

Logged in and downloaded the manual....cool....

Unfortunatly you would need to have an ISP that supports PHP to get the full use of it...oh well back to ASP.

Am sure there must be plenty of web space providers that let you use PHP... or you could always set up your own :)

you can download PHP at http://www.php.net

and http://www.cfm-resources.com supports, ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion..... sweeeet... :)

it's rather fast too... when I upload my files I get a 40k/s(thats my bandwidth limit) speed... and downloading is at least 100k/s

Since PHP is completely open-source, platform-independant and (most of all) free, there are a lot more hosts that let you use PHP than there are for ASP. So that's really not a worry.

they're kinda hard to find though... :(

They are?.... weird... last I looked I could have sworn that there were more PHP-enabled hosts than ASP. Of course some do both. Only Windows servers can support ASP (except for ChiliASP but I've heard that's not very good) so any Unix/Linux/whatever based server will most likely use PHP. Even VB-World uses PHP.

well... you tell me where they are.... I can't find them... :eek:

You could try looking on that site you're so fond of referring everyone to...

http://hosts.php.net/

You probably won't find all that many good free PHP hosts (outside of the UK :D) though.

I've tried looking there... like you said... not many are free... :(

That's really annoying :(. Fortunately, I can use UKLinux!!