newbie need help

[Anon]

I'm more an amature Graphic Designer. I can build up website with HTML. But now I'm in need of PHP. What i'm trying to do is to make a form for anyone to fill out, click on sumbmit and it'll display the text into the article section on a page (pretty much like this forum thing here.)

So I'm just wondering, should I start learning from another programing language first or can i just jump directly onto PHP?

..and is there any good site or book that would teach PHP to real real real beginner here?

[greg252]

Just jump right in- that's what I did.
Read the manual at www.php.net
Check out devshed.com
Ask questions here

Good Luck.

[einhverfr]

If you are more of a graphic designer than a programmer, you will want to be familiar with the following technologies for your page:

databases (for this, MySQL is sufficient and most widely supported)

You have mentioned that you are proficient with HTML, so all you need to do is process the submission information, and save it in the database. Then you grab the information from the database and add it into the HTML web page.

Just jump in-- find some sample scripts, and use the manuals.