What Is PHP? PHP is probably the most popular Web programming language in the world. PHP is a recursive acronym for Hypertext PreProcessor. The main advantage of PHP is that it can produce dynamic web pages because it can read from and write to a relational database (most often MySQL).... 

At some point, people who have some knowledge of HTML and/or CSS eventually need to do more, and usually they start wondering if they should learn PHP. Most, in fact, have already played around with it a little because they’ve made some minor adjustments to existing PHP code... 

  I thought I’d share my normal procedure for starting a new web site, using a free CSS template, chopping it up into separate PHP parts, editing bits, and putting it all back together again. Unless you are a web designer by trade, or have one that works for you, you may... 

These are just a few tips and tricks for Ubuntu newbies mostly who are just migrating over from Windows and need to know some basics. (work in progress, and will be added to over time).  [edit] Since I wrote this article I’ve posted a new post that would be helpful for a Ubuntu newbie about things...