Thx - but
$userid = ibase_gen_id ('GEN_USERS',1,$dbh);
gives me
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ibase_gen_id() in
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/mc/register.php on line 116

what is $dbh?
Greetings
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From: Yves Glodt [mailto:yglodt@...]
Sent: 24 November 2004 12:23
To: firebird-php@yahoogroups.com
Subject: **SPAM** Re: [firebird-php] auto increment last insert



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> [Alan McDonald] Firefox os the browser, Firebird is the RDBMS
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> This is how I get a new value
> $newcontactid = $db->get_var("SELECT GEN_ID(GEN_CONTACT,1) FROM
> RDB\$DATABASE");

In general, since PHP5, instead of "SELECT GEN_ID(..." you can also
use the function

int ibase_gen_id ( string generator [, int increment [, resource
link_identifier]])

e.g.: $newcontactid = ibase_gen_id ('GEN_CONTACT',1,$dbh);

See here:
http://lu2.php.net/ibase_gen_id

Best regards,
Yves

> Then you use it to insert your new record
> Alan
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