This tutorial is aimed at those new to PHP and MySQL. The object of this tutorials is to show by way of example how to use php to CREATE a database, how to CREATE a table, how to INSERT data into a database, and how to SELECT that data and display it on a web page.

The tutorial doesn't get into working with forms and the data submitted in them, but it does give a great overview of basic SQL commands, pushing data into tables and some other simple functions (loading a CSV file, preventing SQL injection and getting the last inserted ID).