Our Pick:Build You Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL
PHP and MySQL are widely used in creating webapps on shared web hosting. This book by Kevin Yank, Technical Director of Sitepoint, is a great way to get started. It assumes no prior knowlegde and goes over all the basics that would be needed by anyone wanting to add backend functionality to their websites. Sitepoint produces great books.
Setting Up LAMP: Getting Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Working Together
Many of today's web applications are built on the "LAMP" stack --that is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. This book will show you how to set up this environment and get the four pieces to work well with each other.
