My company is going to be moving to a Concrete5 based site sometime around October. The person in charge of the redesign hired an outside firm to develop the site. I'm in need of some advice in terns of how to take my skill set and adapt it for C5. I would talk to the outside firm, but as of now have not been included in the redesign process. Even though I am the webmaster, who wrote every line of code on the current site, the person doing the redesign has decided that she knows best what the company needs and it is in the form of a CMS that lets her monkey in my business.

The current site is built in classic ASP. I use it for database integration to make portions of the site dynamic. I have things like calendars, scrolling headers, forms and many other things that are not achievable via simple text and HTML.

I read that C5 is based upon PHP. How do I add PHP to C5 site pages such that they can talk to databases and make pages do things based upon the content of said databases?

At present, I know nothing about C5 and have not even found a decent tutorial that explains the CMS.

All assistance is greatly appreciated.