Hi,
I used a book called " Professional PHP4" from Wrox. I found most of it fairly bad, but the following chapters allowed me to write my own custom e-commerce shopping basket
website hosting. (only my second PHP app!)
Chapters :
3 PHP Fundamentals
4 PHP Structures
6 Debugging
7 User input and regular expressions
8 Sessions and Cookies
9 File Handling
10,11,12,13, 17
The other chapters were either over fussy, or just there for completeness. It's only available used, but the advantage might be that it doesn't stress the Object orientated stuff, especially those chapters. If you haven't done OO programming, there is no need to begin with that learning curve as well. You could use your pascal knowledge, and then build up to it.