PHP Books and Sample Chapters

PHP 5 Power Programming

To download the book for free as a pdf file click on downloads under the More Information heading and a div will appear with the download link.

Programming : PHP at wikibooks

This is an open content php textbook from wikibooks. It covers the basic of the PHP language as well as some advanced concepts such as OOP and templating.

Practical PHP Programming

This is an unpublished book on PHP. This book assumes no PHP programming skill at all - you will be taught from scratch in that respect. It appears to be quite comprehensive and can be navigated online in tutorial fashion, so it serves as an online php book or php tutorial.

Learning PHP 5 Sample Chapter

Chapter 8: Remembering Users with Cookies and Sessions

PHP Cookbook Sample Chapter

Chapter 8: Web Basics

Programming PHP Sample Chapter

Chapter 5: Arrays

A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0

Free PHP book online that can be downloaded in pdf format.

PHP Session Management With Cookies

Book excerpt at O'Reilly.

PHP Articles

PHP Freaks Articles

This is a large index of php articles at php freaks, one of my favorite sites for free php stuff.

Generating pronounceable passwords

PHP article that shows a way to generate random but pronounceable passwords.

PHP Programming

This articles presents and examines the source code for a simple PHP guestbooks using MySQL.

A Contact Database using MySQL and PHP

Article about creating a contact database using MySQL and PHP.

Accessing a Microsoft SQL Server database from PHP running under Linux

PHP database article.

ODBC and DSN-less Connections for PHP

This article describes how to setup and use ODBC from a PHP perspective.

Templates - why and how to use them in PHP3

A php article about using FastTemplates with PHP3.

Interfacing PHP With MS Access 97+

PHP database article.

File Uploading in PHP 4

Comprehensive article about uploading files with PHP4.

How to store binary files in a MySQL database.

PHP database programming article.

PHP and Cookies

Article that describes setting and reading from cookies in PHP.