[PHPwestoz] getting the last inserted id in mysql

Samuel Cochran sj26 at sj26.com
Tue Feb 22 23:20:02 UTC 2005


Evan Barter wrote:

> Samuel Cochran wrote:
>
>> Mike Fewings wrote:
>>
>>>> Unfortunately I don't know any function in MySQL that lets you 
>>>> retrieve the auto-increment ID of a field you just created. You 
>>>> normally have to do another select, which is not hard if you do 
>>>> this: "SELECT ID FROM Artists ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1" This will 
>>>> give you the last created ID, which normally would be the last 
>>>> record you created.
>>>
>>>
>>> This function can retreive the last insert id from the database
>>>
>>>                select last_insert_id() as feild_id
>>>
>>> and make this query immediately after the insert and it will return 
>>> the last id that was inserted by auto increment.
>>
>> Alternatively, one can use the mysql_next_id() function of PHP. Have 
>> a look: http://php.net/mysql-next-id
>
> There's always mysql_insert_id() 
> (http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php). But now 
> I'm just being redundant. :)

That's what I meant :$

-- Sam




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