Want to shift to PHP. Looking for books

[vihutuo]

Hey guys I have been an ASP.NET developer for quite some years .
But now I want to shift to PHP.
Which books or resources would you recommend ?

Thanks

[CGSS-CyberGeek]

Hi,

I personally would recommend the PHP Manual and Documenation at php.net.

[jdonaldson]

There are so many good tutorials on the Web you should look at first! Just search on "php tutorials" on G.

[campolar]

i recommend PHP, MySQL for Dummies

[blognol]

Simple and best site for php beginners
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com

[is0is0]

Try out the video tutorials at Lynda.com, they helped me a bit.

[Ilyes]

No need to books friend !
There are a lot of web based tutorials.
Just search google for:
PHP Sources
PHP Tutorials
and visit all websites in the first page and choose the one you like ! All of them provide good resources.
You can also visit my new blog at: http://myphpsource.blogspot.com
Good luck !

[minibuck]

You can get PHP manual here : hxxp://www.php.net/download-docs.php (choose your language).
I have used it so much, it include almost example for each function.
Welcome to PHP community. I like PHP too.

[timophy]

Like others before me have stated. The php.net information has to be the absolute best. I learned everything I needed to know from there website.

Here is an example of why it is so great. Lets say you need to uppercase a string. Welll guess what? They have a function pre-built for that called strtoupper() and they also have 100 other people telling you 100 other things you can do with that function right here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtoupper.php

[proxywhereabouts]

try looking some reading materials at sitepoint. You can previews their books too.

[Syndication]

Although I didn't learn from a book, I was helping a friend pick up some PHP skills and he picked up "PHP/MySQL for Dummies". This is a great resource. Looking through the book, as a PHP developer of over 6 years, it taught me some things.

[vbn]

Check O'Reilly PHP Cookbook

[vihutuo]

Thank you for all the suggestions.
As most of you have mentioned I think I will need to check out "PHP/MySQL for Dummies" and the other websites. I have bookmarked the websites that you have given. I am also going throughhttp://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/ as recommended by blognol and I am liking it as it is clearly written with a lot of code examples