Question

i’m new to mySQL. i have created a join table from two tables:

students
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id(auto)
name

homeworks
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id(auto)
description

students_homeworks
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idStudentHomework(auto)
idStudent
idHomework

a student should fill a form in my website and provide his name and homework description. as far as i know, i sould then query the database in my php code and INSERT student.name and homework.description to respective tables.
but how should i fill the students_homeworks table?
should i query the two tables again and find the IDs and then fill the join table?
(i googled it but just found how to create join tables and SQL JOIN command)

Answer 1

1. insert into student(name) values ('john')
2. select max(id) from student
3. insert into homeworks(description) values ('maths')
4. select max(id) from homeworks
5. insert into students_homeworks (idStudent, idHomework) values(1, 1)