NewsForge has a new article psted today from Sean Morton that's more of an intro to PHP and MySQL than anything else - Breaking in to dynamic Web pages with PHP and MySQL.

For my first project with the PHP scripting language and MySQL database, I put together a dynamic Web site that could handle posts and administrative modifications from, shall we say, non-technical people. The project turned out to be much easier than I expected. My humble goal was to create three similar pages [...] I would need a simple database, capable of holding the information required for the three pages, plus various other pages for administration, where one could add and remove posts. Speed and scalability were not an issue due to the low traffic to the site, but price and simplicity were; I had to do this on my own, and our yearly budget was nearly gone.

Sounds like a familiar situation for a lot of folks out there, and not just people in IT either. Most people can relate to this kind of struggle, either with thier own pages or even working on a corporate site just to show the pointy-haired bosses it can be done.