Re: [PHP-DB] how is it possible to read data from an excel workbook ?

2002-06-13 Thread Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Hi, The majority of the problems arise when you try to do something that's not idiomatic to the language or endemic to the environment. MS Excel PHP do not co-exist, and you will have a lot of headaches whenever you try using some M$ product with a non-M$ technology. However that being

Re: [PHP-DB] Querying for MAX

2002-06-12 Thread Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Hi César, As others have obviously pointed out using MAX() is the way to go. Need I mention that you can also insert values of your own making into an auto_increment column as long as they are not already used by some other record. In your case since you have old records with IDs of their own