Greetings, Fellow Monks,

Recently, I've been doing some work on a MySQL system that involves, among other things, inserting rows into a certain table. In order to keep the table organized, we have it arranged like this:

id path
int not null auto_increment text

Now, this is all well and good, and it serves our purposes fine. We use the auto_increment attribute of the id column in order to track each entry within our table. To insert something, we use this query:

$sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO table(path) VALUES(?)");
$sth->execute($path);

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And after this, I need to retrieve the id value for the row that we just inserted. I know this can be accomplished with a simple select query after the insertion, but I'm wondering: is there any way for me to reduce this to a single query, that will insert the row and return the id for the row that was just inserted?



Thanks,
Spidy
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In reply to MySQL: INSERT and return? by Spidy

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