Automatically assigning an 'ID' when registering to the site

[ben.matthews18]

So when I plan to set up a register form on my site I need to know how to automatically assign an ID to the user once they press the 'Register' button.

I guess I would be using this type of table setup;

Table name: Users

ID int 11
Email varchar 30
Password varchar 15
Firstname varchar 30
Lastname varchar30

Thanks

[meffe]

if the Id Column is set to auto increment, You can use this sql statement

$sql="Insert into users values("NULL","[e-mail]", "firstname","lastname")"

[YuriyHorobey]

my small 5c:
create table Users(
ID int(11) auto_increment primary key,
Email varchar (30) not null,
Password varchar(15) not null,
Firstname varchar(30) not null,
Lastname varchar(30) not null,
);

after you execute query you can retrieve the ID using mysql_insert_id()

If you're going to do DB operation in more professional way use "prepared statements" which are nicelly realized in mysqli extension

But if you want to go even more professional -- use ORM

If I were you I'd add an email confirmation script. Once the user registers, the users table is updated with the id, but an additional field called confirmed is set to 0 (meaning NO). It is only set to 1 (YES) when the user replies to the email by pressing a link contained within. Otherwise, you may be bombarded with spammers and other flavours of magic carpet idiot.

This is quite easy to do - just build a confirm key - which can be made from a hash of email and id, e.g.

$salt = "f00l15h"; //or any string of your choice
$confirm = md5($salt . $email . $id);

$url = "http://www.example.com/confirm.php?id=$id&confirmcode=$confirm";

Just send the $url in the body of the welcome email.

The confirm.php page then processes the hash - if it matches - set confirm field to 1

Process

$_GET['id']
$_GET['confirmcode']

Get the email ($email) from the DB using id as a WHERE clause value.
Check that the confirm code matches:

$salt = "f00l15h";
if($_GET['confirmcode'] == md5($salt . $email . $id))....

Anyway, that's my 2penneth.

[coreyavis]

Don't forget to make the ID field in MySQL unsigned and NOT NULL.
ID int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment primary key