The question pretty much says it all.  The database is in MySQL using phpMyAdmin.  
A little background: I'm writing the interface for a small non-profit organization.  They need to be able to see which customers to ship to this month, which customers have recurring orders, etc.  The current system is ancient, written in PHP 4, and I'm in charge of upgrading it.  I spoke with the creator of the current system, and he agreed that it would be better to just write a new interface.
I'm new to Python, SQL and PHP, so this is a big learning opportunity for me.  I'm pretty excited.  I do have a lot of programming experience though (C, Java, Objective-C), and I don't anticipate any problems picking up Python.
So here I am!
Thanks in advance for all your help.
What can I say? Just download the various software, dig in and ask questions here when you run into specific problems.
I have a MySQL database, I want to write an interface for it using Python. Help me get started, please!