Agreed. Essentially, any web framework or web programming is a way to give a GUI front end to your database. Learn the database layer, learn how to write sql,

Agreed. Essentially, any web framework or web programming is a way to give a GUI front end to your database. Learn the database layer, learn how to write sql, learn how to break down your problem into a database model, and be able to think about it in terms of rows and columns in a database. All the database stuff that you learn is going to scale pretty linearly with any type of web application that you're doing. That is, the more database stuff that you learn the more you're going to know about web programming.