Question

I know how to pass existing variable values between pages. But how can I design a page that adds new entries to the mySQL db and then retrieves the newly created page_id* (that’s what I’m calling it in my db) value to the another page?

*page_id is an “auto increment”/interger column in my db table

Answer 1

If you run $db->insert_id() or mysql_insert_id() on the database, the id of the last (insert) query is returned.