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What are some good sites to start learning PHP

thanks

more and more I find myself going here
http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php

In the Joomla! Beginning Developer Course there is a good set of PHP, MySQL and Object Oriented Programming tutorials.

HTH!
Amy

thanks much to you both, 

you may also want to check out w3schools.com

In the Joomla! Beginning Developer Course there is a good set of PHP, MySQL and Object Oriented Programming tutorials.

The site is not running anymore and it links http://developer.joomla.org/, but I can't see any 'Beginning Developer Course' anymore ?

you can always try http://docs.joomla.org/Start_here

Thanks, but what I wanted was the six week course that was on that site. I don't understand why the site has been set offline .

i much prefer books for this kind of thing the last one i read was SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24hrs. it was the third edition that deals with php 4.3.

Make sure if you buy a book, get the most up to date version! i was resigned to 4.3 because i couldn't find a newer version in a store anywhere.