Hi. What about Auto_increemnt field ?? Your's id can be auto_increment field. for example: create table dupencja (id int(7) auto_increment not null, primary key(id));
so when you insert records: insert into dupencja values('') - > id will be 1 insert into dupencja values('') - > id will be 2 this is auto_increment, so your trick isn't need. More in manula of mysql. regards. I piasecki - www.b-c.pl ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Pitcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] grabbing id from new record > Hi, > > Is there a way to grab the ID (from ID field) while INSERTing a new record? > > I am currently doing a separate INSERT then a SELECT query to find the most > recently added record by that user: > > select ID from table where user = '$user' order by ID DESC limit 0,1 > > This does the trick but it may not be the most efficient way. > > George > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 11/12/01 > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Znudzilo Ci sie logo w komorce? Wgraj nowe [ http://komorki.onet.pl/dodatki.html ] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]