Question

the way i have it is that I set up an insert command which works well
it add the entry to my DB …since i want to insert other entries in other tables using the unique index that was obtained from the first insertion I do a query obtain the index then reuse it other insert…
though this works fine…I am sure there has to be a better way
any suggestions?
thank you 🙂

Answer 1

for the autoincrement index you can use

SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()

or mysql_insert_id() in PHP if you happen to use this language