Build Powerful Web Apps: PHP & MySQL Tutorial

[Warren Togami]

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html

This is an excellent introduction to PHP & MySQL programming.  PHP is a
powerful language for writing web applications, used in situations similar
to ASP, Coldfusion or JSP.  MySQL is a popular open source relational
database when used with PHP due to its high performance in most web
applications.  PHP has greater scalability and much quicker development time
when compared to perl when it comes to web applications, although perl is a
powerful general purpose language with many important uses outside of web
applications.

If you are skeptical, read this page to see the simplicity in the basics of
PHP.
http://www.php.net/tut.php