If you are running a high traffic application this will cause you a world of problems. Do not do it unless you like pulling out your hair and banging your head against the wall. What happens if 3 records are inserted at the same time or just microseconds apart? You are going to get the wrong insert ID for 2 of them. Been there, done that, spent 15 hours straight at work fixing the problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Woollard [mailto:luke@taborvision.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 5:09 PM > To: PHP-db > Cc: timbo@komrades.dyndns.org > Subject: RE: Getting the value of an auto-increment > Importance: High > > > Try this immediately after you insert a row. > > $sqlQuery = "select MAX(YOUR_COLUMN_NAME) from YOUR_TABLE_NAME"; > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: timbo@komrades.dyndns.org [mailto:timbo@komrades.dyndns.org] > Sent: Friday, 11 April 2003 9:59 AM > To: > Subject: Getting the value of an auto-increment > > > Hello, > > I'm using an auto-increment field in a table as the primary key. What I > want to know is when I use an INSERT query to add a row to the table is > there a way I can get the value of the auto-increment field of the row > that was just inserted? > > What I'm currently doing is messy but works: > I get the current time and session id and write them to one of the fields > in the row and INSERT that. I then do a query and find the row (thus > getting the value of the auto-increment field) and then write the real > data. > > I'm just hoping there's an easier way. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tim Coombes > Komrades Ink. > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
