Question

I’m trying to fetch the last inserted row Id of a Sqlite DB in my PHP application. I’m using Zend Framework’s PDO Sqlite adapter for database handling. the lastInsertId() method is supposed to give me the results, but it wouldn’t. In PDO documentation in php.net I read that the lastInsertId() might not work the same on all databases. but wouldn’t it work on sqlite at all? I tried overwriting the lastInsertId() method of the adapter by this:

// Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Sqlite public function lastInsertId() {     $result = $this->_connection->query('SELECT last_insert_rowid()')->fetch();     return $result[0]; } 

but it does not work either. just returns 0 everytime I call it. is there any special clean way to find the last inserted Id?

Answer 1

Given an SQLite3 Database with a table b, as follows:

BEGIN TRANSACTION; CREATE TABLE b(a integer primary key autoincrement, b varchar(1)); COMMIT; 

This code gives me a lastInsertId:

public function lastInsertId() {     $result = $this->_connection->query('SELECT last_insert_rowid() as last_insert_rowid')->fetch();     return $result['last_insert_rowid']; } 

That is – if your table is defined correctly, your only problem is likely to be that you tried to fetch key $result[0] – also, whenever you’re using a computed column, I recommend aliasing the column using the ‘AS’ keyword as I’ve demonstrated above. If you don’t want to alias the column, in SQLite3 the column should be named ‘last_insert_rowid()’.