Converse T., Park J., Morgan C. PHP5 and MySQL Bible

Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2004. – 1083 pages.
This book is for anyone who wants to build Web sites that exhibit more complex behavior than is possible with static HTML pages. Within that population, we had the following three particular audiences in mind:
Web site designers who know HTML and want to move into creating dynamic Web sites;
Experienced programmers (in C, Java, Perl, and so on) without Web experience who want to quickly get up to speed in server-side Web programming;
Web programmers who have used other server-side technologies (Active Server Pages, Java Server Pages, or ColdFusion, for example) and want to upgrade or simply add another tool to their kit.