After watching the lynda.com videos on html/css I've downloaded 100 html/css templates and am getting more flexibility and power from looking at how other people did it than the lynda.com tutorials that I found quite basic. Where can I find PHP source or what strategies should I use to try and learn PHP

thankyouHow much experience do you have with programming in other LANGUAGES?

I taught myself the basics of PHP from: http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ but other great resources are http://www.youtube.com/phpacademy and http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL442FA2C127377F07

What I did when learning PHP was to just play about learning the syntax for basic concepts such as 'if statements' and loops (Using tizag.com) - I had already programmed in other languages so this was PRETTY easy. What I then did was learn how to work with simple MySQL databases - From there I built a very simple blog-type application, From there I just began to expand as I learned more constructs. Once you get more advanced or want to develop bigger applications you may want to then look into using a framework but I'd advise against doing this until you have a good UNDERSTANDING of the basic language.My background is knowing only the very fundamentals of html and cssIn that case I would recommend you focus on learning the basic programming concepts before TRYING to build anything huge. You may also want to look into SQL databases (MySQL is probably the easiest for PHP) as you'll likely end up needing a database in your applications.