Over on the Developer Tutorials website there's a new comprehensive tutorial looking to introduce you to the world of PHP.

PHP, as we told earlier, is a server-side scripting language. The client will always see and interact with HTML in his browser. [...] PHP can also be used from command line to execute php scripts. [...] PHP is capable of doing much more than what read above. Let's look at some of the popular features of PHP.

Some of the topics covered in the tutorial include:

• the basics of PHP
• variables and data types
• expressions
• functions
• scoping
• strings/arrays

If you're new to PHP and want to get in on what the language is all about, be sure to check this comprehensive tutorial out. You'll get a quick dose of the language - enough to get you started developing quickly.