"The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now." loved it.

The magic is over

Mac + Nginx + Percona + PHP love them all!

time to rescue the domain

There are a lot of PHP based frameworks along you want to deal with the verbosity of the PHP language.

Two types of frameworks : "Full stack" and "glue" "Full Stack" are more automated and 'easy' to start and create CRUD. "Glue" are more powerful, full of libraries but less automated and a learning curve more demanding.

Full Stack - Cakephp - Symfony - Kohana - CodeIgniter

Glue - Pear - Zend Framework

The two extremes are Cake and Zend Framework

If you want to stay with PHP try Kohana. If not, Rails (Ruby) or Django (Python) are the best out there.

I recommend you to stop deciding and start doing something with one of these.

Thanks for the positive advice. I've decided. I want to be a programmer, I love build things myself. And yes, we hit HN frontpage. great start =).