On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM, dealTek <dealtek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Noobie starting to learn oop for databases from here: > > > https://github.com/JeffreyWay/PHP-MySQL-Database-Class/blob/master/MysqlDb.php > > I've got lots working but have a few issues: > > 1 - after an insert I'd like to get the id of the new record and I'm not > sure how to get that... > > mysql_insert_id (depricated?) or mysqli_insert_id() (I am using mySql 5.3) > > not sure where to add this... (most likely in MysqlDb.php but I don't know > where or how...) > > http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php try SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(); it should give you the id of the last inserted row (on a connection basis). > > > 2 - how does one do aggrigate select queries like "SELECT SUM(price) FROM > mytable" ... what I tried seemed to fail... > > Please show is exact query that failes, and give the error it returns. > > And if anyone can point to some good OOP training URL's I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance... > > Note sure what OOP has to do with MySQL, but I'd say google for PHP OOP and there's plenty of good stuff available. - Matijn
