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- Mitko Kostov

I use html kit with the php addons it's free

try w3schools.com or tizag.com;great tutorials!!

Thanks to all who gave me great advise.

This guy seems cool, try here http://phpvideotutorials.com/ or http://www.tutorialspoint.com/php/index.htm there. You also came to the right place for those. My recommendations though would be daniweb.com or pixel2life.com

Here is the link to w3schools They have some excellent tutorials on php. They start off with the basics and have hundreds of examples, e.g over 20 on arrays from simply setting up an array to sorting the items in an array - there already is a php function to do this.

They are also good for many other web skills from HTML to .NET

The most important thing it's the array concept, if you learn to manipulate arrays, you will be able to put almost any data or given result. I like very much devshed.com, phpbuilder.com and phpit.net, very good articles about everything.