Question

I have a form that lets users create new records,

In the field that is the id that auto-increments i want the user to see the record number that this record is by somehow showing latest value+1 in the fields value.

I was thinking of something like:

<input type="text"  value="<?php echo $myQuery['recordId'].length+1"/> 

But that doesn’t work.

Again, this is only to get the default value in the <input>

Instead of having to look up the last id, And this form is only used by one admin.

Answer 1

You can find the one plus the highest id by selecting it:

SELECT MAX(id)+1 FROM table

But like David said, you’re not guaranteed this will be the id that is used, because 2 people could load the page at about the same time.