Ok l'm really lame and like n9ne apparently starting the learning curve, but this is kind of how l'm going....

An Idiots Guide to PHP and MySQL <- very basic but imparts the syntax to those of us used to more free flowing languages.

Following this (and it's only a feets wet sort of thing), will try and find something like PHP in a nutshell, which basically just describes the commands and functions (or whatever you call them in PHP) in the language. Then use the tried and true method of downloading code from planetsourcecode and apply some of the hacks from here.

Always find the easiest way to learn a language is to actually use it for projects, and ask a 101 questions on various boards.

Good luck n9ne.

P.S Put my first piece of code up on our board a while ago (basically a hacked copy of some one else's code), and missed a number of those ";" at the end of statements. LOL told ya l'm lame with PHP.... but for some web pages l'm writing actually got it to work straight off the bat so to speak.