Question

Is it possible to find out if new entries where made into a MySQL table?

For example a table has 10 records and someone adds 2 new.

How do I write a php line to detect the new records (only) and insert them into another table?

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use triggers to achive this.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/triggers.html

Syntax will be similar to this one:

CREATE TRIGGER ins_table AFTER INSERT ON first_table 
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
    INSERT INTO second_table values(NEW.field1, NEW.field2,..., NEW.fieldn)
END;