The IBM developerWorks site has a part one of a new tutorial series for anyone out there looking to jump into PHP development - Learning PHP, Part 1.

This tutorial is Part 1 of a three-part series that takes you from the most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the file system by documenting the building of a document workflow system. In this part, we look at the basics of building a PHP script, including syntax, HTML forms, and database connections.

They go a bit beyond most of the intro tutorials that I've seen out there, getting into some more advanced things like form interaction and database connections in the first part. So, if you're looking to get into PHP and find out what it's all about, you should give this a look...