| Posted by Kimmo Laine on 10/24/05 13:27 
"Feudalac!" <feudalac@gmail.com> wrote in message news:djichr$du3$1@ss405.t-com.hr...
 >I have to insert a value into a table and with the new ID i have to
 > update some other tables.
 >
 > is there a way to do it like:
 > insert into table (fields) values(...) and return id of new record
 >
 > update table set field=id of new record where id=number
 >
 >
 > for now i
 > insert into table
 > read last record from table (order by id desc limit 1)
 > and then undate other tables with the id given...
 >
 > something to reduce the number of queryes...
 
 
 php has a built-in function for this: mysql_insert_id().
 see www.php.net/mysql_insert_id for details.
 
 
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