PHP: The Good Parts is a book can take you into the palace of PHP, in which you will see all the essence features of PHP, including the type system, object-oriented mechanism, database interaction, safety assurance, built-in function library, etc.

ActiveState Komodo IDE is a cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux), universal IDE programming development tool supporting for multiple dynamic programming languages. It provides a powerful workspace for editing, debugging and testing programs and supports all mainstream programming languages (115+) including Python, PHP, Go, Perl, Tcl, Ruby, NodeJS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and so on.

PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, 4th Edition is suitable for intermediate/senior PHP programmers to read, also with certain help for getting started with PHP, but not much, because it puts more emphasis on helping PHPers to expand ways of thinking. For people with some work experience in PHP it has very high reference value, which can help to grasp the essence of PHP's object-oriented design and development, so as to ascend to be the high-end PHP programmer.

In fact, at first glance, PHP5 and MySQL Bible is really some "old" (released in 2004, and the involved subjects are PHP5 and MySQL4 which seem outdated. But as one of the classic works of Wiley Publishing's Bible series, its 1080 pages' content is absolutely worth to drill down and study.

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites, 4th Edition is an acclaimed PHP and MySQL tutorial guide with many reprints. It uses the task-based approach to teach PHP & MySQL, guides readers to learn them in depth with the help of lots of illustrations, and shows readers how to use PHP & MySQL to develop dynamic web sites well.