PHP/Mysql: Get the last inserted auto increment field

Lets say you have inserted a row inside your mysql table from PHP, and now you need the ID value that just inserted as auto incremental field. Mysql has a function that returns the last inserted auto incremental field. The function is LAST_INSERT_ID()

You can easily call the function from your PHP code. I'm providing the PHP code for you that will retrieve the last auto incremented field from mysql.

## get the last inserted auto increment id from mysql table
$query = "SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() ID";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$id = $row['ID'];
}


That's it. This will need you when you have inserted a row at mysql, and the auto incremented field is a foreign key of another table. That case you just get the ID using above method, and use at that table.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Excellent!!! this is exactly what i was looking for!

Thank you for posting it!
Anilkumar kg said…
This is ok.....but in a multiuser environment (for 1000 concurrent users) how can u guarentee this
Anonymous said…
This function is set per session, so you would get the last inserted ID of wherever you exactly inserted from. It is guaranteed.