CodeCharge? is it any good?

Hi, I am a newbie in the field oh php and databasing, but I would like to learn a bit to create a database driven site. I want to have a database with products, and the html pages for the products and categories are 'built' automatically from templates. First of all, am I right in thinking that PHP (and a database) is the way to do this? Secondly is CodeCharge [ http://www.codecharge.com ] any good? I was thinking of trying it, but I want to make sure that it is not a "FrontPage" type program (generating bad code). I don't want to try to understand code that is wrong. Are there any other programs that will create the php code for me? Any help / pointers / suggestions much appreciated, Cheers, Donald