I have discovered about a week ago that to be a professional web designer, I will need to learn Java and MySQL, as well as obtain a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. To that end, or to at least try to earn some money for graduate school, I am committed to learning PHP and MySQL!

Realising that PHP could truly have the ability to send e-mail, where as Perl does not on this server, the idea struck me to update parts of my website to utilise PHP and MySQL to store users' email addresses. However, this would require recoding most everything involving users. Posting to my entries would be largely hampered, requiring a link to access the posts in the MySQL database rather than instantly drawing the posts from XML.

An another idea is to rewrite my entire website using PHP and MySQL. The problem, however, is that SQL-based databases do not appear as versatile as the XML databases, and this high versatility is highly needed for my purposes.