These days  I found a great PHP tutorial series called “Diving into PHP”. It is made by Jeffrey Way from Theme Forest and it has 15 episodes till now. It starts from scrach and slowly builds up to advanced topics that is why it is great for PHP beginers and for advanced users.

Some resource links :

WAMP

MAMP

XAMPP

Enough with the chitchat, lets dive you in:

Downloading the Language

1st episode will teach you to install the support applications that will build the developing environment (Get the source files):

Variables

2nd episode shows you how to work with variables and using single/double quotes (Get the source files):

Passing Values From Page to Page

3rd eppisode will get you in how to pass variables from page to page using GET and POST (Get the source files):

Multiple Variables and the “foreach” Statement

4th episode continues on how to pass multiple variables from page to page you will have a review for “foreach” statement (Get the source files):

Refactoring, Arrays, and Functions – Oh My!

5th episode reviews arrays, refactoring, functions, and includes (Get the source files):

Includes

6th episode gets you into somehow more advanced topics like “include” statement (Get the source files):

Regular Expressions

7th episode will teach you how to use regular expressions with PHP. Over the course of about ten minutes, you’ll be learning about “preg_match()” and “preg_replace()” functions to validate a form. (Get the source files):

Strings

8th episode will explain to you how to use the strings. Single quotes, double quotes and a not so known concept called heredocs (Get the source files):

Detecting First-Time Visitors

Starting with 9th episode, you’ll going to learn some practical uses of PHP. In this episode, you’ll be shown how to detect whether or not a user has visited your site previously (Get the source files):

Getting Started With MySql

In 10th episodes you’ll be shown how easy it is to get up and running with MySql. We’ll also review the correct way to retrieve information from your new database (Get the source files):

SQL Insert Statements

Continuing on from Day 10, you’ll review SQL insert statements that will allow you to add new rows to your MySql database with PHP. Additionally, you’ll learn one of the ways to loop through an array and thats the foreach statement. (Get the source files)

Thats it for the moment. Stay tuned for the upcoming screen cast. Don’t forget that screen casts are originated from http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/diving-into-php-video-series/.

If you need to integrate MySQL data into Flash with PHP than this is the screencast to see. It goes into details and explains very good and simple what you need. This is embedded from tutorialvid.com and has a higher resolution than those from YouTube. The down point is that you have to login in order to see the full movie, but this is free.

This is the perfect video tutorial for beginners how want to make from the beginning a good database layout. Take this very serious because the saying “think first and act later” must be taken in consideration when thinking about databases.

An SQL injection demo that should make you check twice when setting SQL security.

This video tutorial will teach you how to use For and Foreach functions.

Yes another PHP instalation tutorial. But this one is more detailed and better explained. It will show you how to install XAMPP and the first steps in making a simple PHP script.

Every body likes the ease of Drag and Drop thinks in Windows. It saves a lot of time when you need to do a lot of things (like copying some pictures from one folder to another). But what if we do this in a web site. This tutorial will show us how to do this easy.

This video tutorial is the first from a series of tutorials made by www.thenewboston.com witch I appreciate. You will learn how to install XAMPP, for witch you allready saw some tutorials here.

XAMPP is another easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. In my opinion this is the software of choose if you need a quick and good Apache distribution.

WAMP is the one of the most helpful software for those just started to learn developing in PHP. It is a quick installation, step by step, and most off all, the simplest.

Check this video bellow to learn how to install this software.