This project is going to focus on developing and maintaining course material, resources and short projects to help students pick up php as a language and get familiar with web development. The scope would include fundamentals of php, design patterns, architecture, introduction to php frameworks and object oriented programming concepts that are relevant to php. The focus would be to meet the objectives of open courware consortium . The courseware would also include a few representative short assignments for students and ideas for project work. The target duration for running the courseware once completed would be 12-16 weeks with about 6-8 weeks of classroom teaching.
If you are new to php, start by going through the wikipedia entry on php