The developer interviews I publish in the OpenLampTech publication always seem to be a big hit. I enjoy them and learn so much from other developers. This week, I’m reposting another recently published fantastic interview.

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This developer interview is with Shawna Brookes, a self-taught full-stack LAMP stack developer. Shawna is making a path all her own and working on a vision for a better web experience.

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Now that OpenLampTech is one year old, I have a point to prove. That I can consistently provide the MySQL, PHP, and LAMP stack communities with a valuable newsletter publication. Challenge accepted. This week’s issue is full of great content so give it a read!

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In OpenLampTech issue #53, we have some fantastic content covering:

• WordPress Hooks, actions, and filters
• MySQL performance tips
• SQL TRANSACTION and Isolation Levels
• Top Linux mistakes and how to avoid them
• And much more …

Unbelievably, the OpenLampTech developer newsletter is one year old. Thank you so much for reading and making it possible! I appreciate each and every one of you.

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In this week’s OpenLampTech issue #52, we have articles covering:

• MySQL ordering with NULL
• 7 WordPress tips for professionals
• MySQL GUI clients for Linux
• Working with WordPress custom tables
• And much much more

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It’s hard to believe that OpenLampTech tech will be 1 year in the making and 4 more editions from now. Insane! Here’s this week’s edition with the best PHP, MySQL, and LAMP stack media I curated. Thanks for reading

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In OpenLampTech issue #48, we are looking at articles covering:

• Preventing race conditions in databases
• Sending emails with CodeIgniter
• Use VIEWS in your Laravel application
• Server-side jQuery Datatables with PHP
• MySQL JSON data type
…

Welcome to this week’s OpenLampTech newsletter, the newsletter for MySQL and PHP developers. There is always something to learn and share from all the curated sources out there and OpenLampTech has the MySQL, PHP, and LAMP Stack content covered. Thank you for reading!

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In OpenLampTech issue #42 we have articles covering:

• Custom validation rules in Laravel
• MySQL time-saving Date functions
• PHP clean code tricks
• Web scraping with PHP
…

We have another packed issue of OpenLampTech, the newsletter for MySQL and PHP developers, this week. I’m glad to have you here. Thank you!

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In OpenLampTech issue #41, we are looking at articles covering:

• Is MySQL COUNT(*) slow?
• Symfony Twig UX components
• WordPress vs Drupal
• Top PHP testing tools
• And much much more…

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As powerful and useful as the CodeIgniter 4 Query Builder class methods and functions are, there are times when you need to hand-craft your own queries. Perhaps they are complex. Or, you would just rather write the raw SQL. Learn how to safely use the input you need – typically as part of the WHERE clause conditional(s) – using 2 different parameter binding variations with examples in MySQL.

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What is the LAMP stack?

The LAMP stack is a well-established combination of 4 pieces of software that form one of the most robust web application architecture stacks.

LAMP is actually an acronym created from the 1st letter of the name of each of the 4 components it is built from:

1. Linux – The operating system. …

My students liked the MySQL Transaction post but wanted one that showed how an external web application would interact with MySQL in the scope of a transaction. So, I put a little PHP function together that write across two related tables in the context of a transaction. It uses mysqli (MySQL Improved Extension) to connect PHP to the MySQL database.

The function is barebones and uses the oldest approach of hidden inputs to maintain context between rendered forms using an HTML POST method. The hidden inputs are preceded with “h_” and snake case is used for variable names.

The function only writes to two tables. It writes to the member table and when that completes successfully to the contact table. The function:

• Submits credentials from a file and raises an error when they don’t work.
• Initializes a …

The idea of ACID transactions are a basic feature of SQL’s individual Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands, like the INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. Transactions across two or more tables are a natural extension of ACID compliance features provided by DML commands. However, they require a structured programming approach, like a store procedure or like API implemented in an imperative language.

Surprisingly, transaction management wasn’t covered well in Alan Beaulieu’s Learning SQL because he only provided pseudo code logic. While I thought troubleshoot some broken MySQL SQL/PSM logic would be a good learning experience for students, it wasn’t. So, I wrote this sample code to show how to achieve an all or nothing transaction across four tables.

The code for this example on transaction management lets you perform the important tasks necessary to effect transaction …