Advanced PHP Books
 

I'm looking for some advanced PHP books. If you have any recomendations please tell me, thanx!

I'm not sure if these are really available. I've personally never needed a PHP book. php.net has all the documentation I need to do anything. I'm not even sure what kind of things you're looking for in an advanced PHP book.
-Dizz

I just got Professional PHP. It's Advanced OOP and Project Mangament/Workflow stuff. Appearntly it has tons of typos from what I have read. I simply don't pay enoug attention to really notice it, and a lot of the example code doesn't work from what I've read.

That stuff doesn't really bother me because I would rewrite it anyway, and as I said I don't event notice the typos and grammitcal errors except for once but that was because they mixed of two words in explaining something.

PHP and MySQL Web Development is great, covers everything from beginning to end.

PHP Graphics handbook is also nice if you want to do simple image stuff or make full blown graphs

php.net is the way to go, you can learn anything about php from that site, or one of the sites that it has links too.

Most books you will find out there are ment for somebody just picking the language up. There are a few books out there that deal with more specific stuff. For example i have a book that is all about using Postgresql and php together to design e-comerce/dynamic sites.

yep, php.net..

Maybe i'm old fashoned, but I love a good programming book. I hate reading pages and pages of text off a screen, it's much nicer to read through a book that explains what you want to know in plain english so you can understand it, grasp the concept, then start programming. Books you can easily take anywhere and pick up anytime, much easier than a laptop. If you want just the nuts and bolts and like reading screen off a text, you can completely learn the language @ php.net, no doubt. But I don't reccomend it.

I do though use php.net for refrence, don't know what I'd do without it

I'm with you Lich.

PHP 5 Power Programming
http://www.phpclasses.org/

The book in the first link ... is, i think, advanced :)