On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:59:31PM -0500, csnyder wrote: > If for some reason your table can't include an AUTO INCREMENT field, > perhaps you could just "SELECT id FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1" > to get the highest id number, and then add one to it.
And if you need to go that route, read up on MySQL's "FOR UPDATE" syntax. --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php