PHP, the PHP Hypertext Processor, is an open source server-side scripting language for Web servers, which provides a real alternative to ASP, ColdFusion, Mod_Perl or JSP if your aim is to provide dynamic Web pages. Dynamic Web pages are pages which interact with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information - which may vary each time and which may be based on a form they've just filled in, or on information extracted from a database or some other external source. Typical applications include e-commerce, online newspapers, visitors' books, ticketing systems, project management, and other groupware projects. The traditional way to produce this type of dynamic page is via CGI scripts, but these are separate programs which must be executed as a new process for each page hit, so they scale badly and rapidly become memory and processor hogs as server load increases...

Learn how to make loops using while(), in this tutorial it include a sample showing you how to make it print the numbers 1 - 10 on seperate lines! its a good starting point for any beginner.

This is an introduction to the PHP web development language. Focuses on the "meat & potatoes" of the language, and assumes the user has little experience with web development languages.

Learn PHP array() and how easy it is to store and organize complex data structures. This is one of the thing you must know in order to create dynamic web sites and on-line applications.

Echo is one of the basic functions in PHP, you should get acquainted with it if you want to learn PHP.

If you are new to PHP, this is for you. Here you will learn how to create and run a PHP web page for the first time.

Proper Coding Techniques for PHP

This tutorial provides some technical background on a LAMP server, database design and normalization of a MySQL database, and an approach to developing admin screens for a fictional game site, as a learn-by-example application, illustrating the issues a developer should consider when designing and coding a php/MySQL database driven website.

This is a solid introduction to using PHP's build-in directory handling functions. It includes code examples used to create an array of filenames based on a directory structure, and filtering out different types of files.

If you know HTML and new to PHP, This is the tutorial for you. This is the first of many part of the PHP tutorials which will guide you thru into creating a dynamic & easy maintenance website. Read on !