mikesd1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> update contacts set confirm_number = confirm_number + 1 order by >> contact >>> desc limit 1 > > Here is the php query I've been using to send the record in the first > place > > $query="INSERT INTO contacts (first_name, last_name, email, phn_number, > address, city, state, zip, dates, comments, confirm_number) VALUES > ('$FirstName', '$LastName', '$Email', '$Phone', '$Address', '$City', > '$selected_state', '$Zip', '$newdate', '$Comments' , > '$confirm_number' )"; > $result=@mysql_query ($query); > > (obviously in the script, it's all on one line) > > Now, what I need to do, is somehow pull make confirm_number get > submitted as a new record, which will happen once they submit the form, > but I want it to be submitted +1. (12345 should now be 12346 but a new > record entirely) > > > I was trying this code before the submission query: > > $confirmnumber="SELECT confirm_number from contacts ORDER BY contact > DESC LIMIT 1"; > $confirm_number=$confirmnumber+1; > > Now what this is doing for me so far, is just taking the first numeral > of the record, which happens to be 4 (I originally added the > confirm_number via the rand function, but have since taken that out) and > adding 1 to it and that is it. > > So the new $confirm_number=5 > So it sort of did the job, but not quite.. > > > The question is how can I make a new record (I know the answer to that > part) BUT with a confirm_number of 1 greater than the previous record. > > > Ok, so just that I am clear, you are SELECTing and pulling all the data that you are submitting in the above INSERT statement from the DB initially, then you are only modifying the confirm_number value and then re-submitting all the values, as they originally were, back to the DB and creating a copy of the original data. The only difference being that the $confirm_number has been altered. Correct? -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php