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Is there a way to return the id of a row that was just created in MySQL with PHP?

hi, i have an inset command such as

insert (name) values($name);

where i have id column as outoincrement how can i get the id of the inserted record after inserting directly

Answer 1

If you are working with mysql_* function, you’ll have to use mysql_insert_id() (quoting) :

Retrieves the ID generated for an
AUTO_INCREMENT column by the
previous query (usually INSERT).

With mysqli, you’ll use mysqli::insert_id().

And, with PDO, you’ll call PDO::lastInsertId().