Re: Request for lastID
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:29:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Request for lastID | ||
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Colin Viebrock wrote:
>
> mysql_insert_id() is a very highly used PHP function. If we hope to convert
> people to using PEAR's DB, then keeping at least a non-portable version of
> this will save people a *lot* of recoding.
>
> Maybe this functionality can be emulated in the other DBs? I don't know if
> auto_increment fields are specific to MySQL.
>
I think, this functionality is very specif of MySQL, and probably can't
be emulated by the other backends. The common way to do this is using
sequences that are "supported" by Pear DB.
Tomas V.V.Cox