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I've been a professional web developer almost since '98. I started in Perl (and still, in many ways, prefer Perl), and now work almost exclusively in PHP.
MySQL and PHP are an unbeatable combination for starting web development. Very sophisticated sites run PHP--despite its reputation as a toy language, it's actually capable of operating in very high-demand situations. There are RDBMSes that are more mature than MySQL (Postgres comes to mind), but MySQL has the widest installed base, it's faster than hell, and it's dead reliable.
There are LOTS of tutorials and resources online for starting PHP programming. Google some.
Incidentally, you should also learn HTML and CSS. Your lovely code is worthless if you can't make it render its output in the browser!
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