note 97184 modified in function.mysql-insert-id by danbrown

From: Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:29:24 +0000
Subject: note 97184 modified in function.mysql-insert-id by danbrown
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if trying to insert a generated random id use mysql's UUID() to generate a unique key for you, there should be a lot less problems with it. <?php $query = sprintf( "INSERT INTO users" ."(id ,username)" ."VALUES" ."(UUID(),'%s' )", mysql_real_escape_string($user) ); if( !mysql_query($query) ) {/*insert failed*/} $id = mysql_insert_id(); ?> --was-- if trying to insert a generated random id use mysql's UUID() to generate a unique key for you, there should be a lot less problems with it. $query = sprintf( "INSERT INTO users" ."(id ,username)" ."VALUES" ."(UUID(),'%s' )", mysql_real_escape_string($user) ); if( !mysql_query($query) ) {/*insert failed*/} $id = mysql_insert_id(); http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php

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