Help - Names of a couple books wanted.

[CkPsyChO]

I recently became interested in php scripting when i noticed that it was very close to mirc scripting, which i can get around with... I aslo read thru the tutorial on www.w3schools.com ... very helpful.
Can you recommend any good books for begginers to advanced? The school library will be paying for them, so any suggestion is welcomed.
I was thinking if you could recommend a begginers book, a reference book, an intermediate book, and an advanced book. Maybe all in one, but like i said, anything goes.
Thx

--Chris

[Moonglobe]

if you do a search on these forums for 'Book Reccomendations' it comes up with a lot.........

[alanzhao]

Do you have any previous programming experiences?

I started with these books:

Core PHP Programming

and

MySQL

if you have some programming experiences, these book should be very easy to pick up, and then all you have to do is get your hands dirty to do lots of PHP programming.