using regex to make a number of checks : <p>I am very confused by regex expression checks. I am trying to make several checks on two different strings in php. The first string must be 3-8 characters long, begin with a lowercase letter, and consist entirely of lowercase and the second must be 6-12 characters long, begin with a number, and end with any character that is not a letter or number. So if I had $first = "ttyl45" and $second = "6ttyl56*" These would pass the checks. I just don't know how to go about doing this because regex is very confusing to me I looked all over the internet but I'm still stuck</p>
