what books to people suggest getting to learn PHP and MySQL

The best place for PHP is the documentation http://www.php.net/docs.php
and the mysql http://dev.mysql.com

In my experience there is not one good book to learn from. It takes several.

Ones that I like are
Oreilly - Learning PHP and MySQL
Oreilly - Learning PHP5
Prentice Hall - Practical PHP and MySQL

Oreilly's PHP Hacks and PHP Cookbook are good also

I found this OK
It is online and free, you can find it here Practical PHP

Myself I like the website http://w3schools.com

Originally Posted by Arenlor

Myself I like the website http://w3schools.com

hey, see now, i didnt know they did PHP, i guess they have to really but i never thought about it. cheers... they helped me loads with html and css, maybe they can with PHP aswell, thanks.

although i find the internet much more useful than books for learning programming languages, ive always found that a book can help me a lot alongside the internet especially too explain things i dont understand etc...

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phppr/ I keep that with me, it is so very useful.

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Though to avoid negative feedback, a book I recommend is:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MySQL-Dynami...9078696&sr=8-3
I learned most of what I needed to know from it, then I went to http://www.php.net for the rest.

This one is my personal favorite:
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Deve...4080648&sr=8-8