Learn PHP in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours by Matt Zandstra.Consisting of 24 one-hour lessons.
This book is divided into five sections that guide the reader through the language from the basics to the advanced functions.
First section of the book teaches the fundamentals of PHP. And then, building upon what has been taught in the first section, sections two through four shows the reader how to apply that knowledge in order to interact with the user by creating and managing forms, cookies and authentication.Also learn how to access databases and how to integrate system components, e-mail, LDAP, network sockets and much more.

some useful benefits of being able to code in PHP
1) Easy personalize your pages.
2) Make easily .htaccess code for yourself.
3) Quizzes,code games & other lead-building tools.
4) Mix JavaScript and PHP is a powerful combination.