I liked PHP in 24 hours, I read and did the examples out of that in Dec, 2 006 and Jan 2007 when I was down with a broken foot. I also worked a couple of javascript books, one as well a 24 hours series book. Since then I have moved on to the advanced PHP book that everyone else here mentions, funny how like minded people congregate, and 'Practical PHP and MYSQL' by Jono Bacon. I have gotten a boatload of use out of all of them!

Funny sometimes how I will go back to the most basic example to get something more complicated to work. As they say in sports, it's always good to work on the fundamentals of the sport.