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