The author has written this book with the goal of making the task of learning PHP something fun and, as such, you will find lots of good information, even for those who have not programmed much before. But this book also has lots of information on advanced functionality in PHP for veteran users looking to take their PHP skills above and beyond where they are right now.
Practical PHP Programming Online Book:
www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/index.php
Here are the online chapters you can browse and read through:
1. Preface
2. Introducing PHP
3. Simple variables and operators
4. Functions
5. Arrays
6. Objects
7. HTML Forms
8. Files
9. Databases
10. Cookies and Sessions
11. Multimedia
12. XML & XSLT
13. Output Buffering
14. Java and COM
15. Networks
16. Miscellaneous topics
17. Security concerns
18. Performance
19. Writing PHP
20. Writing extensions
21. Alternative PHP uses
22. Practical PHP
23. Bringing it to a close
24. Answers to Exercises
25. The future of PHP
26. Glossary