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retrieve autoincrement value in PHP
Posted by: Ruud Naastepad
Date: May 30, 2005 06:12AM

I want to display an autoincrement value after a record has been added in a MySQL database. In MySQL I can do :

INSERT INTO table (ID,field) VALUES(NULL,'text');
SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();

However how do I get this value on screen in a PHP-program?

The update in PHP-code looks like:
$table_add = "INSERT INTO table (ID,field) VALUES (NULL, '$field')";
$bool = mysql_query($table_add);

and than I want to show the record-ID like :
echo "Thanks $text, record ID: $ID";

If i do a seperate query, the last_insert_ID value renders 0 (zero), so it must be done within the same query. What should the query look like and how to display the result in PHP?

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