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Asked: 2026-05-15T12:24:08+00:00

I am just trying to get the auto incremented value of a table that

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I am just trying to get the auto incremented value of a table that is currently the highest. I do not need to know what the next auto increment is, just the highest value of what is in the table right now. I am using the code below, but regardless of what the actual auto increment is, what table I last inserted into, what table was last updated / modified, or any other factors that I can see, the value always returns Resource id #4. This is perplexing to me for two reasons. First I don’t understand why the number is always 4, second I do not understand why I am getting back a string value (with letters and a symbol) instead of just an integer. What is the deal here?

<?php $highest_id = mysql_query("SELECT MAX(c_id) FROM customers"); ?>

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  1. Editorial Team

    mysql_query doesn’t return the value from the query, it returns a result resource. To get the actual value, you need to use one of the mysql_fetch_* functions, passing it the result resource you got from mysql_query.

    <?php
    $result = mysql_query("SELECT MAX(c_id) FROM customers");
    $row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
    $highest_id = $row[0];
?>

    or the shorter…

    <?php
    $highest_id = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT MAX(c_id) FROM customers"), 0);
?>
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