lol... that's your mistake. PHP is not the ideal language for a code newbie.
It's messy, complex and very unorganized.

The reason it's so popular is that you don't have to buy a windows server to run it, and that it's an open source project. Just like you see more phpBB forums out there (free ones) than IPB's or vB's... Or better yet, that's why you see more illegal IPB's and vB's than legit ones.

If you're new to coding applications, I'd start with Pascal, probably. It'll teach you some basics.

After that, download the free Microsoft Visual C# Express and start learning C#.

Familiarize yourself with the OOP codestyle in C#, and then you'll find it much easier to learn PHP properly, and to code OOP in PHP.