If you take a look at all the snippets on this thread, you can actually set it fully up, and if you don't understand a certain part you can always ask around here or elsewhere or be like me and make use of the online PHP manual at the official website of PHP.

I'm not expert in PHP either but more a beginner (aka newbie), yet with the snippets provided in this thread I managed to fully setup a custom roster (http://resistance.pewpew.nl/members.php) which is not quite done yet, even now I'm trying to figure certain wow armory things out :)

By the way, is Lynda really that good?
By the sound of it, they aren't seeing you here asking around.