In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Php books and tutorials can help fill your brain this May and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript (2014)
- PHP for the Web (2016)
- PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (5th Edition) (2017)
- PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days (2017)
- PHP and MySQL Web Development (2016)
- Murach’s PHP and MySQL (3rd Edition) (2017)
- Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices (2015)
- PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (4th Edition) (2014)
- The Joy of PHP: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Interactive Web Apps (2015)
- PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (2008)
- PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies (2013)
- Head First PHP & MySQL: A Brain-Friendly Guide (2009)
Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript (2014)
Build interactive data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards even if you have only basic HTML knowledge With this popular hands-on guide youll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of todays core technologies PHP MySQL JavaScript jQuery CSS and HTML5 Explore each technology separately learn how to use them together and pick up valuable web programming practices along the way.
Author(s): Robin Nixon
PHP for the Web (2016)
Learn PHP programming the quick and easy way! With PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source scripting language.
Author(s): Larry Ullman
PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (5th Edition) (2017)
Learn PHP and MySQL programming— the quick and easy way! Easy visual approach uses demonstrations and real-world examples to guide you step by step through advanced techniques for dynamic Web development using PHP and MySQL. Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time. Essential reference guide keeps you coming back again and again.
Author(s): Larry Ullman
PHP for Beginners: Your Guide to Easily Learn PHP In 7 Days (2017)
This book contains the steps, strategies, and concepts you need to learn PHP – an extremely popular scripting language designed primarily for web development. This training material was conceptualized and developed to help beginners of diverse backgrounds to master the powerful features of PHP and effectively learn the skills they need to launch their own PHP website in as fast as one day.
Author(s): iCode Academy
PHP and MySQL Web Development (2016)
PHP and MySQL Web Development, Fifth Edition. The definitive guide to building database-driven Web applications with PHP and MySQL. PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications. PHP is a powerful scripting language designed to enable developers to create highly featured Web applications quickly, and MySQL is a fast, reliable database that integrates well with PHP and is suited for dynamic Internet-based applications.
Author(s): Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Murach’s PHP and MySQL (3rd Edition) (2017)
That’s what one developer posted on the first edition of Murach’s PHP and MySQL. Now, this 3rd Edition does a better-than-ever job of delivering the skills you need to develop database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL, the way today’s top web professionals do. Section 1 is a quick-start course that shows how to use the latest versions of PHP, MySQL (or MariaDB), and the Apache web server to build your first PHP applications.
Author(s): Joel Murach, Ray Harris
Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices (2015)
PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries. Author Josh Lockhart – creator of PHP The Right Way, a popular initiative to encourage PHP best practices—reveals these new language features in action.
Author(s): Josh Lockhart
PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (4th Edition) (2014)
It hasn’t taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open-source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create.
Author(s): Larry Ullman
The Joy of PHP: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Interactive Web Apps (2015)
Third Edition now with bonus chapters. Have you ever wanted to design your own website or browser application but thought it would be too difficult or just didn’t know where to start? Have you found the amount of information on the Internet either too daunting or not geared for your skill set or worse– just plain boring?
Author(s): Alan Forbes
PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (2008)
PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications.
Author(s): Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies (2013)
Get the basics on four key web programming tools in one great book! PHP, JavaScript, and HTML5 are essential programming languages for creating dynamic websites that work with the MySQL database. PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating superb e-commerce sites and content management. JavaScript and HTML5 add support for the most current multimedia effects. This one-stop guide gives you what you need to know about all four! Seven self-contained minibooks
Author(s): Steve Suehring, Janet Valade
Head First PHP & MySQL: A Brain-Friendly Guide (2009)
If you’re ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL.
Author(s): Lynn Beighley, Michael Morrison
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Best PHP Books that Should be on Your Bookshelf
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Php books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Programming PHP
Author(s): Peter MacIntyre, Kevin Tatroe
ID: 2530724, Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc., Year: March 2020, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner’s Guide
Author(s): Juravich, Tim
ID: 2414907, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Limited, Year: June 2012, Size: 5 Mb, Format: epub
PHP 8 Basics. For Programming and Web Development
Author(s): G. Engebreth, S. Sahu
ID: 3608593, Publisher: , Year: 2023, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly record-breakers according to Washington Post, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.