On Saturday, Feb 4, 2006, at 07:22 America/Los_Angeles, Colin Davis
wrote:
I need to insert a new record into a MySQL table which has an
auto_increment
field Ref as the primary index. When I have inserted the new record,
I need
to get the new Ref value in order to name some files to relate to the
record. At the moment I have to do a SELECT command and search for
another
field (Title) which might not be unique.
Is there another way that I get the Ref back after an INSERT?
When I use mysql_query with INSERT INTO it only returns true or false,
rather than the row. The PHP manual says:
Return Values
For SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE or EXPLAIN statements, mysql_query()
returns a
resource on success, or FALSE on error.
For other type of SQL statements, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, etc,
mysql_query()
returns TRUE on success or FALSE on error.
Regards
Colin Davis
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php
This will give you the record id of the last record inserted (or
created).
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