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Offline Sakuriana

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Editing Category IDs
« on: May 05, 2003, 09:27:39 AM »
Is there some way the IDs for the categories can be changed? I know it's not a big problem but it really annoys me that categories that the IDs of categories I have deleted are just vacant and new categories just get built on over them.
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Editing Category IDs
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2003, 10:49:51 AM »
only do it manualy, messing with the database.
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2003, 02:46:32 PM »
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well i wouldn't do that because that can make troubles in your db because the id's are automatic generated...

yep, and all your images will be messed up too.

P.S. who cares about IDs? :?
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Re: Editing Category IDs
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2007, 09:16:53 PM »
Hi.

Changing the "Auto Increment" value in the Operations part of phpMyAdmin would possibly do it. However I don't know it existing values for that field are not overwritten (= messing up the database!)?

E.g. 1, 2, 4, 5.
3 is missing. Set "Auto Increment" to 3 and create a new record. If the "Auto Increment" value then jumps to 4 or 6 ... don't know ...

... later ...

Changing the value makes MySQL put it back to the maximum (=6 in the example above). This method doesn't allow changing the cat_id manually.

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