Originally Posted by Adam sams teachyourlself $codinglanauge OR $appname excellent books have about 10 of theres, work wonders everytime!!

Agreed, I love the tutorials in their books and the code snippets. I have one of their PHP & mySQL books and I think its really neat that they give you some example apps. For example they walk you through how to create a simple discussion board using PHP & mySQL.

They are very good books.