I am a beginner at PHP, I know C and C++, so I can read PHP pretty well, but I am still having some difficulty starting PHP from scratch.   I have been searching the Net for a couple of good sites, and I will mention a couple I have found over the next couple of days.

 First great site I found (was on the DIGG front page, so shouldn’t be hard for others to find as well) is TalkPHP.  I like there example tutorials so far, the way they are layed out, the way they explain the language, then give examples to back up there explanation.

A couple of interesting reads if you are a Newbie to PHP are -> Defining your World - All About Constants , Generating a Range of Numbers the Easy Way, The Dangers of the Header Function , Securing your MySQL Queries with Sprintf plus there are tonnes more.

The site is layed out in forum style, but unlike other forums, the good information is not buried deep in thousands of posts.  They display the latest Articles on the front page, plus have a Articles Menu, and it is split up into several Categories.  You will even find the Top 10 Articles listed in the Articles Menu.

If that was not enough, there is also a Glossary, so you can click on a letter and find the definition of the PHP functions, plus an example.

I am glad I found this site, it will help me tremendously with learning PHP, and I hope it helps you as well.