I have looked and looked to find half-*ssed written tutorials.

So I was wondering if someone here could indoctrinate me, or send me to a sufficient link that they have personally found of good origin and worthy to share.

Doesn't matter what the PHP script is: but, The More Basic, the better.

I would just be trying to figure out how to get a simple PHP script to communicate 100% effectively with MySQL, to make sure i'm doing it right.

Thank you,
Lashtal

To communicate with MySQL? You mean like, open a connection?

mysql_connect ('localhost','user','pass');
mysql_select_db ('db_name');

Bam, you're connected.

You'll find plenty of info here:
http://mysql.com/
http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.mysql.php
http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_mysql_intro.asp

W3 is a good resource.

I just found out that I was having trouble trying to get this to work with my webhost because I was hosting everything on a Windows server; the guy on the phone at GoDaddy told me that I couldn't do it on that server, so he switched me to a LINUX server.

After everything processes, it should work alright.

and yes, Open Source.

Yeah, whenever you get a webhost always opt for Linux.