InformIT has a new article psoted this morning from a chapter in the Sams book - Writing Simple PHP Applications.

Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Juergen Schoenig discuss how to write simple PHP applications. Learn the basics of PHP syntax as well as PHP's built-in functions.

PHP is an easy language and you'll find it an easy task to get used to PHP. In this chapter you learn to write simple PHP applications. You learn the basics of PHP syntax as well as PHP's built-in functions.

In this rather lengthy article they start at the beginning ("Hello world", of course) and work their way through a load of information, including: variables, commenting, executing PHP from the command line, control structures, varaible casing, arrays, functions, and the use of external files. It really is a great introduction to all things PHP, giving a good overview of quite a bit of the language and the method behind the madness. It's not an article for someone looking for details about a specific section of PHP (they spend maybe a paragraph or two on each thing), but it is a wonderful starting point for anyone looking to ge introduced to one of the most popular programming languages out there...

Thanks to PHP Magazine for the link.