Robin Nixon's PHP Crash Course: Learn PHP in 14 easy lectures
My name's Robin Nixon and I'm also the author ofLearning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript,  one of the best-selling web development books of the last few years. With this new book I wanted to follow the successful format of my other Crash Course titles (for JavaScript, CSS/CSS3 and HTML/HTML5), to provide a course in book form to help readers learn PHP rapidly.I  know from the numerous emails I receive that PHP remains as popular a programming language as ever (if not more so). And I also know that it can be hard to master, requiring a steep learning curve, unless taught in the right way. And that's what this book does. It comprises 14 lectures that start at a novice level, and take you clearly from one aspect of PHP to the next, in a straight-forward and logical progression. Each new thing you learn leads to the following one without  needing to refer to additional books or online searches.By the time you finish the final lecture you'll have mastered all the most important aspects of PHP and will already be programming at an intermediate level. If you can spend only an hour a day on the book, you'll be programming PHP in a fortnight or, if you can devote a weekend  to it, you'll reach that level in just a couple of days.I firmly believe that there is no other similar book out there that will teach you as much, as clearly, in such a short time (and in such a way that you remember everything you're taught). That's why I put my name in  the title of this book - because I'm certain that you will become a good PHP programmer by reading it. Oh, and one more thing. All readers of my books are encouraged to email me if they get stuck on anything they read, and my email address is clearly displayed on my website.