Question

I want to combine these two queries into one:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO categories (name, parent) VALUES ('$name', '$parent')");

mysql_query("UPDATE categories SET child='$child' WHERE ID = $id");

Can it be done?

Answer 1

Although I don’t know if this fits your problem, in fact it is possible to combine multiple queries into one, by using the MySQLi extension (it will not work with mysql extension)

mysqli_multi_query($connection, "INSERT INTO a (attrib1, attrib2) VALUES ('$a', '$b');UPDATE b SET attrib3='$c' WHERE attrib4 = $d");