Free and AWESOME tutorial on the web. It helped my out a lot!

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It’s definitely boring - learning programming is dull work, but it’s the only way to learn programming. (They haven’t invented pills for it yet.) If you learn php and SQL (MySQL is a program - you communicate with it in SQL, which is a language) without learning programming, it’s like learning the head format, then writing a web page.

Once you’ve learned programming (don’t expect to learn it in a month - if you do you’re a genius), any of the programming books - Wiley’s Bible series, Sybex’s Mastering series, QUE’s Using series - will give you enough. In fact, the PHP help file is really enough - PHP was designed to let you think about the program, not the programming. (It’s what happens when programmers write a language for programmers - it works.)

SQL is another animal. It’s totally different than procedural or object programming. There are tutorials on the web, but a basic book on SQL might be a better start - maybe SQL for Dummies.

(Once you can handle php, you’ll want to learn Javascript - Javascript for Dummies would be a good choice - and then look for tutorials on the web about AJAX. It’s a pretty powerful technique.)

Really, practice, practice, practice!
Buy a domain name and rent a LAMP server (Linux/unix, Apache, Mysql, Php), and less than 100$/year, inexpensive enough.
(You may find free hosts that offer php and mysql, but they are few and far between! Personally, I know none…)
Then code using Notepad++, and the best source of samples of code at (THE Php site).
If you have a bit of knowledge in C, you ar already 30% there…

Good luck.