I have a query, and I want to get the last ID inserted. The field ID is the primary key and auto incrementing.
I know that I have to use this statement:
LAST_INSERT_ID()
That statement works with a query like this:
$query = "INSERT INTO `cell-place` (ID) VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID())";
But if I want to get the ID using this statement:
$ID = LAST_INSERT_ID();
I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function LAST_INSERT_ID()
What am I doing wrong?
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Answer
That’s because that’s an SQL function, not PHP. You can use PDO::lastInsertId()
.
Like:
$stmt = $db->prepare("..."); $stmt->execute(); $id = $db->lastInsertId();
If you want to do it with SQL instead of the PDO API, you would do it like a normal select query:
$stmt = $db->query("SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()"); $lastId = $stmt->fetchColumn();