Re: Getting the last record in a mysql table FINALLY!!

Niklas, I needed to change the statement slightly, but it did put me on the right track. Thanks again, Hugh $result=mysql_query("SELECT id FROM my_table ORDER BY id DESC, id limit 1"); $id=mysql_result($result,0); ----- Original Message ----- From: Niklas Lampén <niklas.lists@publico.fi> To: Php-General <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Getting the last record in a mysql table > If you have ID that is a incrementing number, you could just query like > this: > 'SELECT ID FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY ID DESC, LIMIT 1' > > And there you have just one result, the last (biggest) ID number. > > > Niklas > > > -----Original Message----- > From: hugh danaher [mailto:hdanaher@earthlink.net] > Sent: 18. tammikuuta 2002 7:37 > To: Php-General > Subject: [PHP] Getting the last record in a mysql table > > > Help! > I thought this would be easy but it ain't. What I want is the id number > of the last record in a table. I've tried a number of variations to the > following but am getting no where! Any help will be greatly > appreciated. Hugh > > > $results=mysql_query(" SELECT last_insert_id() FROM MY_TABLE "); > $row=mysql_fetch_assoc($results); while > ($row=mysql_fetch_row($results)) > { > print "<tr>"; > foreach($row as $field) > { > if ($field=="") > { > $field="&nbsp;"; > } > print "<td > align=center><h5>".$field."</h5></td>"; > } > print "</tr>"; > } > print "</table></td></tr></table>"; > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >