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Nov 18.2004

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I’m inserting customer info into a customer table, using an auto_increment field for invoice number.

I’m using the mysql function “last_insert_id()” to retrieve the latest invoice number so I can insert associated purchases with the appropriate invoice number.

So far so good.

But I’d really like to be able to get that “last_insert_id()” number into a php variable so I could echo the customers invoice number and other info back to them for a printable invoice.

So…how to retrieve that last value of the “invoice number” field in the customers table efficiently, or how to store that “last_insert_id()” into a php variable?

thx

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@jpmoriartyNov 18.2004 — $last_isert = mysql_insert_id();
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@DJsACNov 18.2004 — How about something along the lines of:
[code=php]
function next_insert_id($table) {
$query = mysql_query("SELECT id
FROM category
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1) or die (mysql_error());
$lastid = mysql_fetch_row($query);
$lastid++
return $lastid;
}

echo next_insert_id($mytable);
[/code]

EDIT: yeah ^^ or that :p
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@CODanauthorNov 18.2004 — thank you, mysql_insert_id() is just what I was looking for
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