PEAR and autoincrement

When I have an autoincrement field in MySQL I know how to retrieve the new inserted value by using direct mysql calls, but is there also some way to retrieve the value of the autoincrement field when I use PEAR ????

Try using $id=mysql_insert_id(); don't know if it'll work w/ pear though.

Pear uses sequences and does not rely on the database's auto_increment capability. See this page.

Eh... Guess it's some outdated link 'Error 404 - document not found
The requested document /manual/en/package.database.db.intro-sequences.php was not found in the PEAR manual.

Please go to the Table of Contents and try to find the desired chapter there.'

Oh... guess the page is not outdated but the PEAR/PHP sites have some general problem... on both the PEAR and the PHP site non of the documentation is accessable at the moment... I'll try to check it out later, thanks for the reply anyway.

It works, but I think it's no good practice to 'mix' abstracted (via PEAR) and non-abstracted calls to the database... The idea was that the application I'm writing could be portable to other databases too, which isn't if I use MySQL specific calls.
Thanks anyways for the reply