If you've delved into the world of dynamic web development, you know that whole Web 2.0 thing... you've probably encountered the fact that you have to learn how to run a local web server complete with PHP and a MySQL server on your local machine to test with. If you're on the Mac, you might have seen that OS X luckily comes with a basic installation of Apache and that using Marc Liyanage's great PHP installer package can get you up and running rather painlessly.

The first beta version of Drupal 6.0 has been released! Drupal is an extremely powerful, flexible, and moderately easy to use content management system for developing websites and web applications.

Version 6 offers a slew of new features including:

• A slicker installer
• Improved language support (as in languages people speak, not computer languages!)
• OpenID support
• Actions and triggers

Lynda.com, one of the most useful software video training resources on the net, have added a course on building a content management system with PHP and MySQL. While there are a ton of great online resources available to learn how to use these technologies to interact with each other, I haven't come across a complete guide on how to create a CMS from scratch, aimed at those with only html experience.