Best book to learn PHP 7.0 or PHP 7.1 fast?

[Cromulent]

I have an idea for a framework and I've been back and forth looking over all of the available frameworks and the different languages I could use to make the website and for just pure speed of development I'm highly tempted to use Laravel and PHP. The only problem is I've never programmed in PHP before.

So does anyone know any books to get up to speed with PHP 7.0 or PHP 7.1? I have programmed in a couple of other languages such as Python, C, C# and Java so I don't need to learn the basics I just need a short overview of the language so I'd rather avoid one of those 1,000+ page monsters if I can help it.

Thanks for any advice .

Edit: Do you think it is worth subscribing to Laracasts for a couple of months to get up and running quickly? It looks good but would be interested in other peoples opinions.

 

[Cromulent]

IMHO learning a framework before knowing the language is a bad foundation to build on.

I don't think you have to subscribe to Laracasts do you? They are all free resources to teach you the framework.

I like this resource for learning PHP.

http://www.hackingwithphp.com/

You can learn 5.6 there and they also have 7 as a $20 purchase.

I actually managed to get another programmer interested in my idea so I let him decide on the technology we will use for the website. We'll be using the Go programming language and the Revel web framework along with PostgreSQL.

I'm pretty happy with that as Go looks like a really nice language and I should be able to pick it up quickly and I've already used PostgreSQL in the past.