# PHP / SQL Tutorial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/php-sql-tutorial/459610>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/php-sql-tutorial/459610 "2008-08-11T15:02:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/php-sql-tutorial/459610/1 "2008-08-11T15:02:39Z")

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I’m thinking of switching my website over to a PHP / SQL database system. My server company has all the database stuff installed so it’s fairly easy to create the database itself, but I’m completely clueless as far as the HTML and PHP programming involved.

Does anyone know of a good online tutorial that I can use to learn how to do this?

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/php-sql-tutorial/459610/2 "2008-08-11T15:20:43Z")

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This site : [http://www.php.net/](http://www.php.net/) has been an invaluable source for me.  
I already knew quite a lot of ASP, so learning PHP was very easy for me, but I still found the above site very useful.  
Edit: I learned ASP from a ‘for dummies’ book.  
edit2: And I also found that, for SQL, simply asking Google a meaningful question was a good way of solving problems. There are people on these boards who’s SQL skills are Superman to my [Mr Muscle](http://www.mrmuscleonline.co.uk/images/punny_body1.jpg) who’s help I often benefited from.

I picked up SQL at University, so again I’m not much help guiding you to an online resource if you’ve never written SQL.