Question

Basically I want the books to be text book based, ie, author discusses the background,philosophy,syntax,semtantix for every language AND after every section there are questions what you learned so far and mini projects. Is there any books like this, I’m absolutely new to php/mysql/javascript and web development in general. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not single book

I know you asked for only book explaining introducing PHP/MySQL/Javascript. I am sorry I don’t know one book for this. But what I have read/skimmed which I liked was the following.

PHP

I myself really enjoyed reading Matt zandstra’s PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice. I think it is really a good book to learn good Object Oriented Programming. It directly learns you have to code good PHP instead of just picking up “an introduction to PHP” book which teaches you bad coding practices which will bite you later. I think this book isn’t really for the beginners, but with a little bit of focus you could read this book.

Javascript

My advise would be to read Douglas Crockford’s javascript the good parts. This book explains what part of javascript you should use because they are good and which parts are best to avoid because they aren’t that good.

MySQL

I think you should learn the basics about PDO(PHP Data Objects) reading Dennis Popl’s Learning PHP Data Objects.