How to use lastInsertId in this case? - php

Question

What I want is to get and store the last inserted ID, but I am not sure how. The scenario is, after a user add a record he/she will be redirected to a page that will show him/her of the summary of what he/she saved. But I am not sure how I can do that, to retrieved the recently added record.
I have a class which look like this record.php
<?php
class Record {
private $conn;
private $table_name_1 = "name_of_the_table_1";
private $table_name_2 = "name_of_the_table_2";
public $name;
public $age;
public function __construct($db){
$this->conn = $db;
}
function newRecord(){
$query = "INSERT INTO " . $this->table_name_1 . " SET name=:name;
INSERT INTO " . $this->table_name_2 . " SET age=:age";
$stmt = $this->conn->prepare($query);
$this->name=$this->name;
$this->age=$this->age;
$stmt->bindParam(':name', $this->name);
$stmt->bindParam(':age', $this->age);
if($stmt->execute()){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}
}
?>
now I have another php form that create and add record, the code is something like this add_record.php
<?php
inlude_once 'db.php'
inlude_once 'record.php'
$database = new Database();
$db = $database->getConnection();
$record = new Record($db);
?>
<?php
if($_POST) {
$record->name=$_POST['name'];
$record->age=$_POST['age'];
if(record->record()){
header("Location:{$home_url}view_recently_added_record.php?action=record_saved");
}
else{
echo "Unable to save";
}
}
?>
The idea is to save the query to two different table and the same time automatically record the auto increment ID of table 1 to table 2 so that they have a relationship. I am thinking I can do that if I can store immediately the ID from table 1 and assigned it a variable maybe so it can be automatically saved to table two using a new query or function maybe. Is this possible? does it make sense? and another thing I wanted to display the recently recorded data immediately to the user. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can return $stmt->insert_id or -1 insteaf of boolean in the newRecord function:
function newRecord(){
...
if($stmt->execute()){
return $stmt->insert_id;
}else{
return -1;
}
}
and use the value to redirect like this:
$newrecord = record->newRecord();
if($newrecord != -1) {
header("Location:{$home_url}view_recently_added_record.php?action=record_saved&id=".$newrecord);
}
else{
echo "Unable to save";
}