[eluser]Brad K Morse[/eluser]
I have a form the user will enter a comment, that can relate to multiple steps, which the user may select.
Each step is assigned an id.
What I need to do is, is store the comment, in the comments table: (comments.id, comments.message) and then take the array of steps the user selected (steps.id) and insert that into the transactions table, which will consist of transactions.comment_id and transactions.step_id
So the user submitted a comment, and selected 4 steps, the id's of those steps are: 2, 5, 6, 7
the comment will be stored into the comments table, have an id auto-incremented, in this example, the comment id will be 12
So now I need to insert into the transactions table, this is what I want it insert (into transactions table) as:
comment_id: 12 | step_id: 2
comment_id: 12 | step_id: 5
comment_id: 12 | step_id: 6
comment_id: 12 | step_id: 7
I know I will have to store all the step_id's into an array, and then run a query for each value, inserting the comment_id that was generated when the comment was inserted into the comments table.
I am unsure on how to accomplish getting that id automatically after it was generated.
I am using an oracle database (oci8)
To sum it up, I need to grab the newly generated primary key from the comments table (comments.id), then store that into the transactions table (transactions.comment_id) 'x' amount of times, based on how many values are stored within the step_id array, so if the user assigned it to the step_id's 2, 5, 6, 7 then there would be 4 inserts into the transactions table, like you see above.
Any help is appreciated.
