Hello everyone PHP and mysql noob here
I'm creating a form to create a new user and at the same time add a contact
but user and contact are in two different table
and i need the newly user_ID to reference the user_ID(FK) in the tbl_contact
how would i do it?
first of all insert the user
mysql_query("INSERT INTO tbl_user (...) VALUES (...)");
then retrieve the last inserted id
$LIid=mysql_insert_id();
then insert the contact with this id
mysql_query("INSERT INTO tbl_contact (user_ID,...) VALUES ($LIid,...)");
If you want to use mysqli
$mysqli->query("INSERT INTO tbl_user (...) VALUES (...)");
$LIid=$mysqli->insert_id;
$mysqli->query("INSERT INTO tbl_contact (user_ID,...) VALUES ($LIid,...)");