PHP MySQL INSERT fails due to unique constraint
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On insert I am catching the unique constraint mysql_errno() 1062.
This works fine but I want to find the existing row to re-instate or modify it.
Is there are method to obtain the row id on insert fail? I tried mysql_insert_id() but realised that would only return the row I'm inserting (or failed to insert) therefore, I get 0.
Is there no option but to issue another mysql_query and simply perform a select on the duplicate value?
I just want to make sure there is no better, quicker, more economical way to do this.
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