> Being rather new to all this, I understood from the MySql manual that > the auto_increment is to b e used immediately after an insertion not > intermittently. My application is for administrators (the site owner & > designates) to update the database from and administration directory, > accessed by user/password login... so there's really very little > possibility of 2 people accessing at the same time. > By using MAX + 1 I keep the id number in the $idIn and can reuse it in > other INSERTS > -- The statement is confusing at best. For the casual user auto_increment is the way to do. I say for the casual user. That is typical me and you. Basically if you do an insert a unique value is inserted at the time of the insert. As mentioned, there are ways to get this value back in the return. Now why I say it's for the casual user is because if you are using triggers then you can do things prior to this value being used and then the statement above is correct. But you are not going to be using triggers... So, put an auto_increment on the key field and find one of the 2^16 samples of how this works with PHP. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
