You all are great! Thank you so much. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Martin Scotta <martinscotta@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Allen McCabe <allenmccabe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Hey everyone, I have an issue. >> >> I need my (employee) users to be able to insert shows into the our MySQL >> database and simultaneously upload an image file (and store the path in >> the >> table). >> >> I have accomplished this with a product-based system (adding products and >> uploading images of the product), and accomplished what I needed because >> the >> product name was unique; I used the following statements: >> >> $prodName = $_POST['prodName']; >> $prodDesc = $_POST['prodDesc']; >> $prodPrice = $_POST['prodPrice']; >> >> $query2 = "INSERT INTO product (pID, pName) VALUES (NULL, '$prodName');"; >> $result2 = mysql_query($query2) or die(mysql_error()); >> >> $query = "SELECT pID FROM product WHERE pName = '$prodName';"; >> $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); >> $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) or die (mysql_error()); >> >> $prodID = $row['pID']; >> >> >> I had to select the new product to get the product id to use in the new >> unique image name. >> >> The problem I am facing now, is that with the shows that my users add will >> have multitple show times; this means non-unique titles. In fact, the only >> unique identifier is the show id. How can I insert something (leaving the >> show_id field NULL so that it is auto-assigned the next ID number), and >> then >> immediately select it? >> >> PHP doesn't seem to be able to immediately select something it has just >> inserted, perhaps it needs time to process the database update. >> >> Here is the code I have now (which does not work): >> >> $query2 = "INSERT INTO afy_show (show_id, show_title, show_day_w, >> show_month, show_day_m, show_year, show_time, show_price, >> show_description, >> show_comments_1, show_seats_reqd) VALUES (NULL, '{$show_title}', >> '{$show_day_w}', '{$show_month}', '{$show_day_m}', '{$show_year}', >> '{$show_time}', '{$show_price}', '{$show_description}', >> '{$show_comments_1}', '{$show_seats_reqd}');"; >> $result2 = mysql_query($query2) or die(mysql_error()); >> >> $query3 = "SELECT * FROM afy_show WHERE *show_id = '$id'*;"; >> $result3 = mysql_query($query3) or die('Record cannot be located!' . >> mysql_error()); >> $row3 = mysql_fetch_array($result3); >> $show_id = $row3['show_id']; >> >> How do I select the item I just inserted to obtain the ID number?? >> > > mysql_insert_id <http://ar.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php> > mysqli->insert_id <http://ar.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.insert-id.php> > > > -- > Martin Scotta >