Christopher Jones has a quick post pointing out a new PHP and Oracle-related book from McGraw-Hill (written by Lee Barney and Michael McLaughlin covering web development with Oracle, PHP and Ajax:
The prolific Michael McLauglin just sent me a copy of his other new book "Oracle Database AJAX & PHP Web Application Development", co-written with Lee Barney.
The book looks at how to build "faster, lighter and more responsive Web applications while reducing code support and creation time". There's chapters on scalability, the basics of Ajax, PDO and multimodel communications.