# \[PHP\] Any good books to recommend?

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**Created:** [September 16, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-any-good-books-to-recommend/238894 "2007-09-16T20:55:36Z")\
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Hi!

I was wondering if anyone out there could recommend me some decent PHP books with an emphasis on:

caching/ building scalable heavy load websites,  
templating,  
ecommerce,  
oop

can’t say I conder myself intermediate but not so sure of advanced, I found this book but am reluctant considering its dated 2004:

> **[Advanced PHP Programming (Developer's Library)](https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672325616/ref=ord_cart_shr/203-9202174-6877536?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)**
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> Over the past three years PHP has evolved from being a niche language use to add dynamic functionality to small sites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale, business-critical Web s ...