Does the following code really disable concurrent execution?
LOCK TABLES codes WRITE;
INSERT INTO codes VALUES ();
SELECT mid FROM codes ORDER BY expired DESC LIMIT 0,1;
UNLOCK TABLES;
The PHP will execute SQL. The PHP file will be requested by many users via HTTP. Would it really execute in isolation for every users?
mid is something which has to be unique for every user so I think I should use MySQL locks to achieve that.
If you have a table with an auto incremented key and you use mysql_insert_id just after insertion, it is guaranteed to be unique and it won’t mix user threads (it fetches the ID on the connection you give). No need to lock the table.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php