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rickharrison: I think the best way to learn this is to get into a framework and start hacking with it.  Go through the tutorials and re-develop what was done in them.  Then develop a small appliaction just for you.  Maybe it could catalogue movies if your a collector, or document your exercises etc.  Just something that would be useful and a learning experience.Then do the same thing with Javascript.  Look at some tutorials.  Re-develop them.  Experiment with cool animations, ajax requests, things like that.The frameworks I recommend are Kohana (www.kohanaphp.com) and CodeIgniter(www.codeigniter.com) for PHP.And like most other people, I LOVE jQuery. (www.jquery).  Feel free to email me (its in my profile) if you have any questions.  I'd be glad to help.You definitely WILL be surprised at how fast you can pick these frameworks up.