When I first started I got the Visual Quick Start Books, PHP For the World Wide Web and PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web.
Some good stuff in them from what I remember, and about 4 years ago I picked up the Javascript versions of the same books, again great books to start with.
Now though I just look it up online if I don't know it already. I have used a couple of other PHP books as well, but the above were probably the nicest to use and follow.
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