Please Recommend a Book

Hello,

I know the basics of PHP and MySQL (I am just a beginner) and would like
to know more of a practical knowledge.

I already have "PHP and MySQL Web Development Edition 1" by Welling and
Thomson.  There is edition 3 now.

Would you recommend buying edition 3 or another book oriented towards
practical building of websites?

Thank you for your help.

Cheers

Chris

To be honest I never toughed a PHP or MySQL book; but I already had a
pretty good education with other programming languages, so it wasn't too
hard to switch to PHP. For me, all I ever used was php.net and some
newbie tutorials I found on google. Combine this with some knowledge
about OO-programming and you'll be a good php programmer in no time.
Maybe for you it helps to read a book, but since I hate reading books I
never toughed one :). It might be more interesting to get a good book
about OO-programming (if you are not already familiair with it) and
practice it in PHP. A PHP script is not much more than a chain of
commands, which you all can find nice and pretty documented on php.net.
In the beginning everything goes slowly, because you have to search for
every command what it does. When you do more PHP programming, you'll
notice you need php.net less and less; for example I now only use it for
very rare functions I never used before.

Sorry for the long story; but I'd say you don't need a book to learn
PHP, you can find everything you need with google and php.net :)

Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know the basics of PHP and MySQL (I am just a beginner) and would like
> to know more of a practical knowledge.
>
> I already have "PHP and MySQL Web Development Edition 1" by Welling and
> Thomson.  There is edition 3 now.
>
> Would you recommend buying edition 3 or another book oriented towards
> practical building of websites?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris