Linked by Adam S on Fri 6th Oct 2006 18:32 UTC
There's an interesting challenge in writing a good book about programming. At a certain point, you'll lose the newbies and alienate the technical. Below the line is a safe introductory book, above it is aimed at a smaller crowd. We had an opportunity review No Starch Press' Object-Oriented PHP, and found it fits nicely into the gap. 
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I agree. I read this book and found it pleasantly surprising and easy to understand. It also covers utilities "that help you document, manage, test, and build your PHP applications, including Phing, PHPUnit2, phpDocumentor, PEAR, and CVS." (from the back cover)
Here is more information:
Title: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
Author: Matt Zandstra
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1-59059-380-4
Check it out if you are serious. I highly recommend this book if you want to move from procedural programming in PHP4 to the object oriented programming afforded in PHP5.
And please, don't forget to pickup/research the topics of PHP security as well. Your code is only as secure as you make it.