Select last insert id

Question

I am inserting a record and i want to use the id of the last record inserted. This is what i have tried:

    $sql = 
    \'INSERT INTO customer
(first_name,
         


        

Answer 1

Check out mysql_insert_id()

mysql_query($sql);
$id = mysql_insert_id();

When that function is run after you've executed your INSERT statement in a mysql_query() command its result will be the ID of the row that was just created.