I provided the link in one of my earlier topics "few video tutorials" but thought I'd create a new topic for those who may miss that post as I feel this is quite a good video tutorial link and would like all to have a chance to check it out. I only skimmed through the videos, cause there's 200+ of the damn things, but I'm sure they have lots of videos that can help with this project as well as lots of others for other areas in php. I find video tutorials to be a good method of learning as they usually briefly explain what they are doing and why they're doing it.
Have a look:
http://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy (just click and will take you to the user page with all the tutorials)
Enjoy