As a continuation of their introductory series on PHP, Zeev and Leon Atkinson have posted their second part, An Introduction to PHP, Part 2 over on WebReference.com.

This new posting picks up right where the other left off (without even an intro), but dives right in with things like reformatting your code for readbility, the concept of variables, as well as how you can get input from your users. Later on, they touch on looping, if/else statements, and a brief mention of the superglobals.

This article and the first part of the series are really just an excerpt from the Core PHP Programming book written by these two, but if the rest of the book is written as well as this chapter, I'd recommend it to any PHP novice out there looking to get ahead.