How to get the id of an inserted mysql row in php

This saved me a lot of work after i found out about it. After you insert a row in a mysql table, you can get the id that was automatically created using this php funtion: mysql_insert_id ([ resource $link_identifier ] ).

mysql_insert_id — Get the ID generated from the previous INSERT operation

int mysql_insert_id ([ resource $link_identifier ] )

Basically it's like $last_inserted_id = mysql_insert_id($conection);

The example from php.net:

 <?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$link) {
    die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db('mydb');
mysql_query("INSERT INTO mytable (product) values ('kossu')");
printf("Last inserted record has id %d\n", mysql_insert_id());
?>