The book I learned PHP with was Beginning PHP4 from Wrox Publishing. It was the perfect book. It covered PHP4 and MySQL, and was written by PHP programmers. I believe there were only 2 or 3 authors, but I don't recall for sure, because I don't have the book anymore.

I swapped it with my friend who bought the "Advanced" PHP programming book. Except the funny part is, that Advanced version, was just PHP3 with a few more complete program examples. So I actually got more information out of the other book. Maybe I should get in touch with that friend, and swap books back :P Not that I need it anymore. I use php.net for questions now. :)

NS