I didn't learn complex regex until later on. I've had a grasp of basic regex from about 3 months into me learning to program, though I always used to use the soon to be obsolete ereg* functions. As a side-note, I think PHP should use regex a little similar to the way PERL does it. Perhaps something like the following:


But I digress MySQL, SQLite and MSSQL are all very similar and I'm sure you know the basics to keep you ticking along nicely. File handling is a bit of a shallow topic really. Therefore, I'd say learn about classes! As that's the way programming is really going these days. OOP is the new buzz acronym, and so knowing that well will, I feel, set you in good stead for the future.

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