$query = "SELECT max(id) FROM table";
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Schwarzmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] finding the highest primary key in a table I want to find the number of the highest primary key in a particular MySQL table. I could do something like... $query = "SELECT id FROM table"; ...then run the query, then create a loop and check all the ID's (primary key) for the highest... ...but that seems like way too much. Any ideas ?? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php