Question

is there anyway to get the ID of the current record I am INSERTING into the database table using php with Mysql without having to do an extra select to get the last ID?

FOr example, if my table has these columns, id, url, name
and if url consists of the domain name and current id as the query variable ex:
domainname.com/page.php?id=current_id

$sql="INSERT INTO Persons (id, url, name )
VALUES
('domainname.com/page.php?id=".**whats_the_current_id**."','$_POST[age]')";

if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }

Answer 1

i use mysql_insert_id() for that. it works fine.

// pseudo-ish code
$query = "INSERT something .... "
$updated = $db->run_query($query);
$id = mysql_insert_id();