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Dynamic HTML drop-down with PHP and MySQL

Josh Otwell
6 min readMay 6, 2020

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After spending a great deal of time in my day job developing a web reporting dashboard/interface with PHP and MySQL, I feel that I have found my stride in back-end web development with PHP. Learning to develop web applications using the LAMP stack — or one of its derivatives (E.g., WordPress, CodeIgniter, Laravel, etc..) — is a huge focus for me right now. It’s no secret I am a MySQL fanatic — hence this blog — and have written about Python code along with the MySQL Shell a great deal here. However, as it normally goes for developers, the PHP/MySQL back-end web development has inspired me to, of course, start a side project. Go figure right! What developer doesn’t have a side project, or two? Be on notice that you will see more and more PHP/MySQL and LAMP-stack related posts in the future, in addition to the MySQL posts I regularly publish. In the meantime, I’ll share something super neat o (to me at least) I learned while working on my side project. I’m sure it is simple and standard for seasoned web developers, but sparks that exciting, exploratory learning feel for me. Continue reading to see more…

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Josh Otwell
Josh Otwell

Written by Josh Otwell

SQL/PHP | Photography | Technical Consultant. Sign-up for my free developer newsletter, OpenLampTech, here: openlamptech.substack.com

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