Okay, I shouldn't have laughed when you said that you couldn't find any books on PHP at your local bookstore... I went to a few bookstores here, and I was most surprised when I couldn't find any books on PHP either. There were ASP, Flash 5, Windows2k, Visual Basic... etc. books, but I couldn't find PHP books! Weird... my guess is that it's starting to get real popular on the web, but the book guys just haven't noticed and written anything yet. Who knows?