I'm a PHP newb but I'm trying to learn. Right now I have a database I created with phpMyAdmin named 'search' but I have no idea how to search it. I have one table with 6 fields, one named 'name'. If someone could post the code to search the database for that field and then display the data in that row or point me to a site that shows how it's done I would be extremely grateful.

For now you can use:

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE name="something";

But you should learn MySQL really, especially if you want to use it from PHP. The code above won't work directly into PHP, you have to set PHP up to connect to the sever etc etc, but the above will work as the query code in phpmyadmin. If you want to know how to get PHP to read from a database, google it or get a good book on PHP/MySQL out of your nearest library.