> PHP For the World Wide Web (Visual Quickstart Guide) is the best one I
> have seen, Larry Ullman is the author and does a beautiful job of
> explaining things.

I'll second that. I have Larry Ullman's "PHP &MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites"
and have been very impressed by it.

Here it is at amazon: <http://tinyurl.com/5lbrz> where it gets 4.5 stars
from 35 reviewers. And the price is right too!

Bongoman