I started teaching myself some php with no prior pragramming knowledge a few years back but got busy with offline stuff and havn't touched it for close to 2 years now so I'm going over some revision.
I just have to say that I wish this tutorial was around when I fist sarted.

Most of the tutorials on php that I could find back then expected you to already know all the common programming jargon and so if you didn't know any of the programming jargon, they were very hard for a non-progarmmer to follow.

This tutorial, and not just this lesson but all lessons 1 to 12 that I've gone over so far, is very nicely done. Simple and easy to follow with the barest of basics explained :)
I love the video tutorials in the earlier lessons and hope to see some more of those here in some of the later lessons.
Your examples are also very practical and easy to follow and the links to other pages for further reading on each particular lesson are a nice added bonus :)

I like the way you show the "human language" translation of code, it really makes it easy to understand.

Many out there may scoff but when I was first trying learn, I had no idea what a variable was, or what a function or a loop was and most of the so-called tutorials I could find at the time simply assumed that I already knew what they were talking about. This fact pretty much made those tutorials almost completely useless. Eventually, after going over hundreds of such mind boggling tutorials and endless hours of research I did finally get to learn some stuff that I would have learned in two seconds flat if any of the writers of those tutorials had been bothered to include simple explainations like you do.

Keep up the good work :)