I have recently started on PHP programming (been postponing it for years!).  The official PHP manual seems to be the only source needed to learn PHP. It is pretty big and I think it will take a week for me to cover it.

An interesting feature of the online PHP manual is the inclusion of “User Contributed Notes”. Sometimes these notes are more informative than the manual entry :). But sometimes they can be misleading as well.

For testing out the scripts, I am using XAMPP Lite - An all in one Windows installer which contains  Apache 2.2.4 + PHP 5.2.1 + MySQL 5.0.33 + phpMyAdmin 2.9.2 + Openssl 0.9.8d + SQLite 2.8.15. Download, extract and run setup_xampp.bat and you have everything running in 5 minutes!

Also I am looking for a good PHP book which can be used as a single offline reference. PHP 5 Unleashed by John Coggeshall appears to be good, but I am yet to make a decision.

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