New to PHP!!!!!

Not sure if i'm in the right place but........ I'm new to PHP and databases. Does anybody know of any simple tutorials to make a simple news based database in PHP using phpmyadmin for MySQL All I want is a page that shows the last xx news items with an ability to scroll through other pages to view archived entries! The problem is that I'm using Dreamweaver Ultra with the PHP extension, but al the tutorials are based on Access databases! Hope someone can help!!! Cheers Oli Wilkinson