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The Newsletter for PHP and MySQL Developers

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There is something for everyone in OpenLampTech issue #30. We have articles covering:

• 20 Laravel tips
• Ignore FSE
• Sorting arrays in PHP
• Linux useradd and adduser commands
• SQL engineering guide
• And much much more…

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Being mindful of NULL values is a good practice. NULLs can slip up on you and give you a heck of a time (especially in calculations) if you aren’t careful. In this post, we will see examples of NULLtransformation with the MySQL COALESCE() function.

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I’ve been publishing more articles outside of the OpenLampTech newsletter, directly to the Substack page. In this post, I’m sharing a recent post featuring one of my favorite SQL books…

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Supercharge your productivity in MySQL Workbench with these ‘click and paste’ SQL code snippets available for any table in a schema. Continue reading and see the ‘Staple Five‘…

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Hey hey! I’ve published another issue of OpenLamp.tech, the newsletter for PHP/MySQL developers over the weekend. Come and enjoy the great content!!!

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The Newsletter for PHP and MySQL Developers

We have a range of posts in this week’s issue covering:

• A huge list of 52 SQL optimization strategies.
• Installing WordPress on Oracle Linux.
• A look at PHP’s isset() language construct.
• Fixing the “too many redirects” error in WordPress.

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I recently learned how to use MySQL to generate MySQL statements for several admin-type Data Definition Language (DDL) SQL queries I needed to execute on the server. For many DBA’s this is likely nothing new and in fact, is a well-used tool in their kit. However, I mostly focus on developer-related tasks, so it is a fresh-in-my-mind learning experience. Continue reading for more information…

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I’ve recently been porting over an existing vanilla PHP application to CodeIgniter 4. One of the new features is bootstrapping all of the necessary MySQL CREATE TABLE statements dynamically based on information parsed from a .fxl file (which is close kin to a .xml file structure-wise).

Each CREATE TABLE statement is complete with FOREIGN KEY constraint clauses to ensure data integrity between linking …

Generally, most all web applications are going to follow the elements of CRUD: Create, Read, Update, and Delete. CodeIgniter 4 is a powerful PHP web development framework that provides a rapid development environment. The CodeIgniter 4 Models come enriched with built-in CRUD functionality, which is covered in this compilation of Medium posts…

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I use CodeIgniter 4 a great deal for learning, personal projects, and application development. In this post, I cover 2 different methods you can use and retrieve the MySQL Last Insert ID value after executing an INSERT statement in CodeIgniter. Continue reading for more information…

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Model Setup

Starting out, I use the CLI Generator feature and create a Model by executing this code in the terminal in the project root:

php spark make:model user --suffix

I have removed much of the …

If you need a structure only .sql file of a MySQL tables’ Data Definition Language (DDL), phpMyAdmin makes this super-easy with just a few clicks. Continue reading and learn how…

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Why use a DDL file?

Why would you need a structure-only .sql DDL file anyway?

Maybe you want to build out a tables’ structure on another server to bring in different data or something comparable, and want it void of any existing data.

Rather than creating the …

When the time comes that you no longer have a need for specific data, use DELETE to remove it completely from your table. CodeIgniter 4 Models have a delete() method that is super-easy to use. Continue reading for more information…

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CodeIgniter 4 CRUD Series with MySQL

I have written a now complete 4-part series over on my Medium account about CodeIgniter 4 Model CRUD operations. Feel free and visit any of the previous posts in the series to get up to speed:

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