What literature would you recommend on PHP?

Question

PHP

Good morning.
What literature would you recommend on PHP?
I have never come across this programming language. Heard only negative reviews, but that's not the point.
It seems like OOP was introduced into PHP. Actually, what would you recommend reading to learn PHP? Maybe something new right away, where there is an OOP, or first something from the old editions, and then everything else is newer?
In general, a good book (or maybe several) on PHP for a beginner is needed.

Answer 1

"I heard only negative reviews" - this is from fools who do not follow the development.
"It seems like OOP was introduced into PHP" - yes, it was like that, about 6 years ago (meaning normal OOP).
Today, PHP is developing the fastest and has almost all the cool features that are needed to develop large projects (package manager, traits, lambda expressions, closures, namespaces, reflections, hello annotations and much more). It is already possible to develop desktop applications and there are extensions for the api of operating systems. Not long ago there was a release of php7, which added some features for working with typing and significantly optimized the core.
Yes, there seem to be problems with threads and daemons in php, but I think this will be solved, despite the fact that it was not created for this at all.
And remember, one programming language of any kind is shit, compared to the stack, where many technologies are used for each task. For example, you cannot compare php vs js vs go, these languages ​​solve completely different problems.

Answer 2

php.net

Answer 3

R. Nixon | We create dynamic websites using PHP, MySQL, javascript, CSS and HTML5. 3rd ed (2015)

Answer 4

This one has already been advised here 13513 times, use the search.