That was the same sites I were gonna propose.
Firstly tizag.com, as it helped me alot when I was new to php. However, they often leave out the "important stuff" like security and validation. They tell you that you should add it but not how to do it. They're great for learning the basics and "playing around" to learn more, but when you start making "real websites" you should do some Google searches for security and validation to fill in the blanks.
w3schools is good too. I've found awnsers to many questions there, but I never followed their tutorial. I just presume it's good 
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