[ianm]

Originally posted by Wunderlust1 should have said - mysql! To judge my own inteligence - how easy or hard is it to pick up php etc? I am someone who has just picked up html six months ago.

Hard to say without knowing your background - if you have any previous programming experience then you should find it fairly easy, just a matter of learning the syntax.

If you've no programming experience at all, then it will obviously be harder as you have to learn the general principles of programming.

Best thing to do is grab some simple code snippets from the two sites mentioned and try and work your way through them learning what they do. Then you can start working on simple pages for yourself (ignore the SQL for now - just do things like passing arguments).

If you get really stuck php.net has all the PHP keywords categorised on it with code examples.