Welcome back. Have you tried Wikibooks?

[link|http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:PHP|http://en.wikibooks....i/Programming:PHP]

It is a good way to start to learn PHP and it has links to various web sites on PHP that you may find useful and some forums you might ask questions on. Not to mention PHP editor links that make your programming of PHP a lot easier.

I hope you find the Wikibook useful, as you will start out with a simple "Hello World" program and work your way up to objects and other advanced topics. Go at a slow pace at first, don't get into objects right away. Just learn the basics, and then learn the differences between PHP4 and PHP5 later. Learn how to print text, generate HTML code, do control loops, IF statements, arrays, comments, etc the basic stuff first. I am sure that you will do great with it, given your past experience.

Good luck on your job search.