Question

what am doing is clonning an old database to new one with different structure but should have same old data

is it possible to do an insert into insert that return id of the insert query

INSERT INTO tab1 (nom,id_2) VALUES
("jack",(INSERT INTO tab2 (pass) VALUES ("1234")));

in INSERT INTO tab2 (pass) VALUES ("1234") i want to get the id of the insert

but no luck!! (i want it in one sql query (i already know about mysql_insert_id) )

thanks in advance

Answer 1

You cant do this on a single query – use mysql_insert_id() to get the last inserted id for example :

mysql_query('INSERT INTO tab2 (pass) VALUES ("1234")');
$lastid =  mysql_insert_id();
mysql_query('INSERT INTO tab1 (nom,id_2) VALUES ("jack",'.$lastid.')');