mysql_insert_id

[yawnmoth]

how could i reduce the following piece of code:

for ($num=0;$num<50 ;$num++) {
mysql_query($db ,"INSERT INTO whatever (stuff) VALUES (somevalue);";
mysql_query($db ,"INSERT INTO sometable VALUES
(".mysql_insert _id().");";
}

to something where only two sql queries are made (as opposed to 100?).
ie. where the first line could be converted to something like this:

mysql_query($db ,"INSERT INTO whatever (stuff) VALUES
(".implode(",", somearray).")";

where somearray contains every somevalue.

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
yawnmoth of comp.lang.php make plain:

how could i reduce the following piece of code:

for ($num=0;$num<50 ;$num++) {
mysql_query($db ,"INSERT INTO whatever (stuff) VALUES (somevalue);";
mysql_query($db ,"INSERT INTO sometable VALUES
(".mysql_insert _id().");";
}

I don't know if you're aware of extended insert format:

insert into Table (f1, f2) values (v1a, v2a), (v1b, v2b)....

However, mysql_insert_id () will only return the value for the first
record. What you could do, though, is this:

$FirstID = mysql_insert_id ();
$Query = "select ID from Table where ID>=$FirstID limit 0, $NumRows";

Where $NumRows is the number of rows you inserted. Since all the rows
were inserted by one query, they will have consecutive IDs.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/