Can somebody recommend a PHP Reference book?

[vous]

Hi,

this is sort of a continuation from an earlier thread that evolved into a book discussion:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10317497#post10317497

By the way...

I bought the PHP and MySQL Web Development book by Wellington and Thompson...

I must say that this book is cool! It really does what it preaches, which is learning how to integrate the LAMP (linux apache mysql php) stack and come up with a site. It comes with pretty nifty examples in a CD which have worked for me for the exception of one which had some hard coded WINDOWS paths!!!!! Argggggghh! Aside from that, I can really recommend this book, it's worth your buck if you are beggining with LAMP...

Now, I'm ready to push forward and am in need of another recommendation which is:

Can somebody recommend a solid PHP Reference Book?

[stuartc1]

If I were to recommend a book it would have to be PHP Cookbook (by O'Reilly) - its not designed to be a reference book as such, but does cover some more advanced features of PHP and is aimed at PHP Programmers with some previuos experience:

you can read a review here

hope this helps
Stuart

[paul088]

I would certainly recommend "PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide" by Larry Ullman. Step by step, many examples with clear explanations. Lot of advanced features. Not a huge one, very reasonal price (around $20).

He also authored "PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide" for newbies. This book got me started.