1. Tools

• Notepad ++ (PHP/HTML/CSS aware editor): http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
• Tail (useful for watching logs) http://sourceforge.net/projects/tailforwin32/
• WAMP (Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP) http://www.wampserver.com/en/

2. Books

• Power PHP (php5)
• A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0 (php4)

3. PHP

• site: www.php.net
• links: http://www.php.net/links.php

4. Tutorials

• PHP intoduction/tutorial: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php
• W3C Schools http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

5. Omnicron Web Server + PHP: http://www.omnicron.ca

6. MySQL tutorial