php retrieving id of the last record inserted and insert it in another table
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Hi all,
I'm trying to retrieve the id of the last record inserted in the table 'authors' and insert the retrieved id in the 'articles' table; here's my code:
$title = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[title]);
$body = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[body]);
$category = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[category]);
$insert_author="INSERT INTO authors (name) VALUES ('$title')";
$select_author= mysql_query("SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()");
$authId = mysql_fetch_array($select_author);
$query="INSERT INTO articles (body, date, category, auth_id) VALUES ('$body', '$date_now', '$category', '$authId')";
this doesn't work...
Any idea please?
Thanks in Advance
Mauro
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