Re: About retrieving auto increment value

LAST_INSERT_ID() is connection-based, not table-based. Therefore instead of: SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() FROM foo_table you should do: SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() HTH Ignatius _________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Soler" <msoler@el-valles.com> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 7:42 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] About retrieving auto increment value > Hi > > I have the typical problem with retrieving auto increment value in > php-mysql environment. > > I have search info in mysql page and I have found LAST_INSERT_ID() > funtion but I don't know how to use correctly. > > I have one script that insert a row. And another script that must > retrieve last auto_increment value for primary key on a table. > > I want something like this: > > SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() FROM foo_table; (like curval(foo_sequence) in postgres) > > This doesn't work. > > It's possible? Where I am wrong? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Marc Soler > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >