How to get last inserted row ID from WordPress database?

Question

My WordPress plugin has a table with a AUTO_INCREMENT primary key field called ID. When a new row is inserted into the table, I\'d like to get the ID value

Answer 1

Straight after the $wpdb->insert() that does the insert, do this:

$lastid = $wpdb->insert_id;

More information about how to do things the WordPress way can be found in the WordPress codex. The details above were found here on the wpdb class page