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Do I have to lock the table when using mysql_insert_id()?

Mar 10th, 2006 08:05
Praveen Kumar Kukkapalli, Nathan Wallace, Brian Moon

No.
mysql_insert_id() holds the last id generated by that script.  So if two
scripts run simultaneously they will each get their respective id's when
they call mysql_insert_id().
http://www.php.net/manual/function.mysql-insert-id.php3