Question

I have the following SQL that works directly in MySQL

 INSERT INTO `my_tabel` (`data`) VALUES ("my_value");
 SELECT * from `my_tabel` ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT 1

It inserts a row, and then gets the new row so that I can return the new ID to use later.

When I try to run the SQL in codeIgniter I get an error message stating that I have an error in my SQL

$m = new my_model();
$sql = 'INSERT INTO `my_tabel` (`data`) VALUES ("'.$my_value.'"); SELECT * from `my_tabel` ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT 1';
$m->query($sql);

Running a single SQL statement works fine in codeIgniter, but not when I add the second SELECT… statement.

Any ideas (or alternative solutions)?

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for everyone’s help. The solution that worked for me was

$m = my_model();
$m->data = $value;
$m->save();
echo $m->id;